[lbo-talk] exit poll...

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 10 13:22:18 PST 2008


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



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