NY TimesAll the ominous predictions, all the fretting about hidden votes and closeted racists frustrating a victory for the nation’s first African-American president came down to this: the so-called Bradley effect did not exist. People did not lie — to pollsters or to themselves — about whether they would vote for a black man. The polls, national and statewide, generally predicted the results with accuracy.
“The unambiguous answer is that there was no Bradley effect,” said Mark Blumenthal, the editor and publisher of Pollster.com, a Web site that publishes and analyzes poll results.
A different question, of course, is whether race was a factor in how people voted, and for a small group of voters — 19 percent — it was, according to surveys of voters leaving the polls. But race turned out to be less of an issue than predicted even three months ago, when twice that percentage in a CNN poll said it would be at least a small factor in their vote.Earl Hutchins? "Race Expert"? Get The Fuck Outa Here.
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It's a whole lotta 2nd and 3rd line inheritors of the CRM gonna have to queue up at the employment office looking for a new gig. Look at plantation house-kneegrow Shelby Steele popping madness.....,
How comes it there's such a high concentration of high-profile house kneegrows in Kali DV? Ward Connerly, Jesse Lee Peterson, the list goes on and on....,
I never bought into the Bradley effect, even way before Obama. There were other factors that played into Bradley's loss.
Perpetual Insurmountable Racism is indeed a myth. I really don't know very many intelligent people who ascribe to it. But isn't it amazing how many Black people you are seeing who say they didn't think this could ever happen. For the record I was never one of those people, partly because I recognize what the presidency really represents to the power elite.
So now, according to popular notions, The Obama presidency not only signals the end of that myth, but indeed the beginning of open and outright "Black Supremacy". I wonder how this new phase of Black Supremacy will look to us common folks?
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