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Probably not

Visitor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:15:15 -0400

I think that in North Carolina there may be the opposite reaction. I believe that many people are concealing their voting preferences due to fear of the increasingly racist and hate-mongering attitudes reflected at several McCain-Palin rallies. It should be interesting.

why would people lie about

Visitor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:31:18 -0400

why would people lie about who they are voting for? you can vote for who you want to so why hide it. i think people will tell the truth.

I doubt it

Visitor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:24:55 -0400

I doubt it because times are different now. It shouldn't be to weird for people to see a black man running for president. Bradley ran almost 30 years ago. But we can guess. We will have to wait and see.

Will Obama suffer from the "Bradley effect?"

mwilliam — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:49:09 -0400

The Bradley effect is named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American who ran for California governor in 1982. Exit polls showed Bradley leading by a wide margin, and the Democrat thought it would be an early election night.

But Bradley and the polls were wrong. He lost to Republican George Deukmejian.

The theory was that polling was wrong because some voters, who did not want to appear bigoted, said they voted for Bradley even though they did not.

Do you think this will happen to Barack Obama?

The Bradley effect is named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American who ran for California governor in 1982. Exit polls showed Bradley…