[lbo-talk] exit poll...

[John Thornton]

Dennis Claxton wrote:
>> Put another way, how likely is it that people will claim they are going
>> to support a black candidate to mask their negative racial opinions?
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> That's called the "Bradley Effect"
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
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> http://www.newsweek.com/id/45158 

Strangely I had totally forgotten about the Bradley effect and was 
referring instead to a general trend among whites to answer non-rigorous 
polls in a manner that masks negative racial opinions. The Bradley 
Effect is the same trend only focused specifically on a candidate rather 
than on policies, opinions, ideas, etc. Odd that I would recall one but 
not the other particularly since the one I forgot is more specific to 
what I was referring.

John Thornton