I love how the left always assumes polls are accurate and actual voting isn’t. The polls MUST reflect the true will of the people. Once they enter the voting booth, though, is when those racists decide “this black liberal [since nobody cares about the Bradley effect when the black candidate is Republican] perfectly matches my opinion, but I hate his skin color.”
Based on my experiences, the far more likely scenario is the reverse: the voters in question prefer the white candidate but are afraid they can’t articulate the reason strongly enough to not be viewed as racist. So, they’ll lie to a pollster and claim to support the black candidate.
Of course, I also am of the opinion that this PARTIALLY explains the Palin bump. Palin on the ticket now provides some limited PC cover. It’s probably only a small part of the Palin bounce, but McCain still needs to be mindful that he can’t count on the Bradley effect.
“Palin on the ticket now provides some limited PC cover.”
That may be. But maybe it’s just as simple as this: Palin gives us something to get excited about.
As the guy said, “The McCain campaign has been about as exciting as dishwater”. Whatever his other attributes may be, McCain himself generates the same amount of excitement.
But I guess I’ll take what I can get!