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October 26, 2008

If Obama Were White; He Would Be Seen as a Horrible Candidate

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by James Buchanan

Barack Obama

Traditionally large leads by Black candidates in the polls have been known to disappear at the last minute. An ABC news article explains ” ‘We’ve seen these types of leads disappear at election time,’ said Michael Dawson, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. The concern is particularly at play for black candidates. It is called the Bradley effect, named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American, after he ran for California governor in 1982. Some pre-election polls showed Bradley with a lead of 9 points or higher; but Bradley lost to Republican George Deukmejian by a little more than a point. As the theory goes, people lied to pollsters, saying they would vote for Bradley when they did not. The Bradley effect could just as easily be called the Wilder or Dinkins effect.”

Is this large change, a last minute revelation by voters that a much-hyped Black candidate would be a horrible choice and nothing more than a far-left liberal, who would raise taxes, strangle small and large businesses and wreck the economy? A large number of Whites no doubt wake up at the last minute, but quite a few people seem to be deliberately deceiving the pollsters.

Now, why exactly would a voter lie to a pollster? Imagine a closet-conservative husband with a liberal wife standing right behind him as a pollster calls. There’s an excellent chance that husband is going to say what his wife wants to hear, rather than telling the pollster the truth. Many Americans are scared to death of seeming politically incorrect. There’s a reason the Founding Fathers established a secret ballot for voting: Most people want to keep their political preferences secret to avoid problems with relatives, friends and employers. (more…)

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October 26, 2008

If Obama Were White; He Would Be Seen as a Horrible Candidate