Area of Expertise: Politics, survey research, polling, campaigns and elections, young voters, women in politics, journalism

Additional Information: Dotty Lynch is a political consultant for CBS News. She stepped down at the end of 2005 as the senior political editor of CBS News, where she covered politics for 20 years. Lynch began her career in politics and journalism at NBC in 1968. In 1972, she joined the polling firm of Cambridge Survey Research, where she worked on polling for the presidential campaigns of George McGovern and Jimmy Carter and for many Senate and gubernatorial campaigns. Lynch developed the concept of the gender gap and is one of the major authorities on women in politics. In 1983 she opened Lynch Research, a political polling firm where she was the first woman pollster in a presidential campaign: the Gary Hart presidential primary race and the Mondale-Ferraro general election. The 2008 election marked Lynch's 11th presidential campaign as a professional journalist and pollster. At CBS News, she covered five presidential campaigns, 10 national political conventions, 18 presidential and vice presidential debates, and five midterm elections. Lynch was the codirector of the Election and Survey Unit, where she managed a team of researchers to provide information and analysis to CBS TV broadcasts, CBS Radio, and CBSNEWS.com. She has been writing the weekly column Political Points for CBSNEWS.com since 2001. Lynch worked on political broadcasts with CBS correspondents, including Dan Rather, Lesley Stahl, Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Charles Kuralt, Mike Wallace, and Diane Sawyer, in particular on their interviews with prominent American leaders, including Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dan Quayle and virtually all presidential candidates, major U.S. Cabinet officials, and congressional and political leaders. Lynch is a member of the CBS News Election Decision Desk and an analyst for CBS Radio. She often appears on C-SPAN, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and NPR.

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