The -real- Bradley Effect.

Manic Moran

Article on Politico about what really happened to Bradley, given the speculation over the 'Bradley Effect', which I think picks the most palatable option to the observer: It's very easy to blame racism for anything if you don't like the alternatives.

Some interesting observations, not least about the problems of exit polling when one demographic decides heavily to vote absentee.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15220.html

Nelson Rising, chairman of Tom Bradley’s 1982 campaign for California governor, still remembers the phone call. Bradley called him shortly after 4 a.m. on a long Election Night, when it was clear Bradley had lost to Republican George Deukmejian.

“You were right,” Bradley told Rising a bit wearily.

With those words, Bradley, the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, acknowledged that a political mistake had cost him the governorship. And, despite all the theories that the election produced a “Bradley effect” that could hurt black candidates such as Bradley — and, a quarter-century later, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama — the mayor himself knew his loss had little to do with race or polls.
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lostexpectation

doesn't mean the thing that's called the bradley effect doesn't occur,


put a freeze on guns sales what was he thinking?