The Right & “The Bradley Effect”
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You know that when the right cites this in polls where Sen. Obama is ahead, they’re basically gambling that racism will deliver them votes, right? It’s not about whether Sen. McCain can campaign effectively enough to win over voters. It’s just praying that enough racists vote against the black guy.
Okay.
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Yeah, it’s pretty sad.
“The only thing that can save us now… Racism.”
Well no one ever said they had any morals
I think what they’re trying to do is set it up so that they can steal the election and then say “Oh, it was the Bradley Effect. We were actually ahead the whole time.”
It’s just praying that enough racists vote against the black guy.
No, it’s more than that — I could probably forgive a rabid partisan for hoping for an undeserved nudge in a very tight race. What they’re doing is praying that racism is still so pervasive in America that it can trump absolutely everything else, in a political landscape where the black guy is favored by every single ordinary metric.
If they’re right, there’s no hope for America and probably no hope for the human race. They chill the blood.
I talked to a pollster who claims that of late there is an observed Bradley Effect when black people (perceived to be black) telephone white people. Of course, you can control for that, but it does put black phone callers out of work. That said, no significant BE has been observed with Obama through the primaries. If anything, the opposite has been seen. But the medias and other jagoffs like to bandy this around. Maybe to justify a Diebold Victory and/or other assorted voter suppression bulljive. Maybe because they’re wankers. Hopefully just the latter.
There was never a “Bradley Effect.” It was a combination of bad polling (Bradley’s internal polling showed it to be a closer race) and a great ground game (the winner, George Deukmejian, was Armenian and apparently got absentee ballots to EVERY Armenian in California).
Enough race baiting folks. The Pittsburgh thing doesn’t give you carte blanche. That is all.
“Enough race baiting folks. The Pittsburgh thing doesn’t give you carte blanche. That is all.”
Hilarious. It was too much to type “Ashley Todd” was it? Just couldn’t bring yourself to make a direct reference?
“Enough race baiting folks. The Pittsburgh thing doesn’t give you carte blanche. That is all.”
Do you consider pointing out racism as a form of race-baiting.
Well, sure…to racists.
And the Bradley effect is racist because.. why?
Sad that the GOP’s Hail Mary is the Race Card. Sad but not very surprising.
Haplo9: “And the Bradley effect is racist because.. why?”
What the fuck is wrong with you? How can you possibly be this stupid?
and the lovely “Redistribution” Jesse Helmsism on Fox/ Drudge/ Clear Channel
Only thing more racist than the Bradley effect is praying for it to save your bacon.
“Only thing more racist than the Bradley effect is praying for it to save your bacon.”
It’s part of the Southern Strategy, but Haplo9 might not think that’s racist.
Don’t you know that complaining about racism is racist unless you are white?
Reverse Racism-
Too stupid to make sense.
Don’t forget the Proposition 8 supporters who are saying that the support for Prop. 8 is underestimated in polls because people don’t like to sound intolerant. I love that they say this without it occurring to them that maybe people worry about sounding intolerant because it IS intolerant. I’m glad that there’s at least that little trace of decency, that “tribute that vice pays to virtue,” as Chesterton defined hypocrisy, where people are ashamed to admit that they are voting based on racism or heterosexism.
(If you’re not voting based on something you’re ashamed of, why lie about your vote? I have done political polling; we don’t know where you live or where you work or anything else except your phone number and whether you’re registered Democrat or Republican.)
It would seem that if one figures a final break of undecideds (say, 5-3) towards McCain, and adds the Bradley Effect of minus 3 or 4 points off the Obama total, we essentially have an even race.
But it won’t matter. McCain lost this election sometime during the week of September 15.