The launch of a collaboration between On the Media and Nate Silver’s 538 to track the push and pull between polling, media coverage, and public interest in candidates. Plus: a look at the long history of savvy political candidates campaigning as Washington “outsiders”; debunking the supposed “Ferguson effect”; and Spotlight, a new movie about the Boston Globe’s investigation into the Catholic Church sex scandal, celebrates the power of the press. 

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