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Thank you for watching and thanks so much for your support. Good morning, everybody. A warm welcome to everyone today. It's good to see you all.

Today we're going to take up the long and fitful, uneasy relationship between the news media and election polling.

We'll consider a number of specific cases today in the context of presidential elections that, for whatever reason, the polls didn't get right.

The polls went wrong. And we'll also consider factors that may explain the easing of poll bashing among American journalists.

Much of the content in today's lecture is drawn from my most recent book,

Lost in a Gallup, polling failure in US presidential elections.

And here are some names that we're going to be mentioning

during the next bit of time.

Edward R. Murrow, he was a legendary broadcast journalist

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