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?
I doubt it
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.