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Giving perspective to the GOP Convention in Tampa Bay: SMU Professors provide expertise- Student bloggers bring fresh points of view

August 30, 2012

Professor Rita Kirk, director of the Maguire Center for Ethics　& Public Responsibility, and Dan Schill, assistant professor of communication studies, are conducting "Dial Test" research for CNN.

They not far from the GOP podium for Wednesday and Thursday night during key speeches.

Groups of undecided voters turn knobs on monitors to indicate what they think of what they are hearing. The results will be used to analyze how well the speakers did.

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