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Editorial
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The United States presidential election, scheduled for November 4, 2008, inspires our journal to include four articles on the role of polls and election campaigns. The three research notes in this issue each deal with an important issue of media effects on public opinion outside of the election domain.
The initial article by Durand investigates the accuracy of the polls of the 2007 French presidential