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An Assault On Democracy
Newshoggers.com — ... and send it into the political wilderness for years, the poor losers of the GOP are more than ready to prevent that end by any means. Few, if any, of the tactics it is using are illegal - often the result of careful legislation designed to preserve the Republican majority forever - but added together they comprise an assault on democracy which would stun even the cynical and sly politicians of Old Europe. The GOP and the McCain campaign have been trying to drum up a Bradley Effect, with campaign and party apparatchiks trotting out racist whistles ...

Polling Trends: 2000 v. 2004 v. 2008
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... to being a predictor (not that that is actually what they are for–they measure opinion at they time they are taken and do not purport to see into the future) is low. However, if they are off, the likelihood is that the deviations from the final polling will actually take the form of a larger Obama victory than the trends indicate because the traditional likely voter models were wrong about who they thought those voters would be. There is, of course, the potential for the Bradley Effect (i.e., white voters telling pollsters that they will vote for a black candidate, but ...

A secret masquerade
Classical Values — ... Effect costume, I would have been impressed.--emailer DM It was at the cleaners.] That really is hilarious. And it made me think that while I might not have been consciously aware of the political implications, perhaps my Hannibal Lecter costume was a subconscious act of passive-aggressive protest. Not so much against The Bradley Effect itself, but the underlying rudeness involved. I do see a problem with the discussion of the Bradley Effect, which is almost always described or analyzed as some form of dissembled racism. Some analysts say the race could be much closer or ...