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Lou Harris, influential presidential pollster, dies at 95

By Zach C. Cohen, Special To The Washington Post
Published: December 19, 2016, 7:23pm

Lou Harris, an influential pollster and political consultant who was among the first to provide polling services directly to candidates and officeholders and helped guide one client, a junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts named John F. Kennedy, to the White House, died Dec. 17 at his home in Key West, Fla.

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