Reply #102: 'Bradley effect' - outdated, over inflated

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typical corporate media trash. I figured out, when this phrase re-surfaced, a person born in 1982*, would be voting in their 3rd presidential election in '08. They probably had never heard of the 'Bradley effect' and care not a whit!



*"...The Bradley effect, less commonly called the Wilder effect,<1><2> is a theory proposed to explain observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some US government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.<3><4><5> Instead of ascribing the results to flawed methodology on the part of the pollster, the theory proposes that some voters tend to tell pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, and yet, on election day, vote for his white opponent. It was named after Tom Bradley, an African-American who lost the 1982 California governor's race despite being ahead in voter polls going into the elections.<6>..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Effect