For whom the polls toll
The horserace polls dominating today’s political news are worse than misleading – they’re bad for democracy.
Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His Jewish Journal columns have won First Place in the Southern California Journalism Awards six times in the past six years. Reach him at martyk@jewishjournal.com
The horserace polls dominating today’s political news are worse than misleading – they’re bad for democracy.
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