Dick Polman

Dick Polman is a veteran national political columnist and the "Writer in Residence" at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania.

Polman grew up in western Massachusetts and studied at George Washington University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Public Affairs, focusing on politics and policy, and served as managing editor of the college newspaper.

As an Inquirer writer, he covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 United States presidential campaigns.

He has been described by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the United States' top political reporters,[citation needed] and by ABC News as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation.

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