The “Bradley effect” is not caused by racism, but by viscious anti-racism. Folks don’t want to be confronted by angry leftists when they don’t want to vote for a black candidate for whatever reason, and ‘go along to get along’ when a pollster calls.
There is ample reason to oppose the election of Barack Obama without appeal to his skin color or ancestry: he is part of the Hyde Park left, and associations with Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, Khalidi, Rezko, ACORN, Al Mansour, and his childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis are all just symptoms of that fact.
I wouldn’t vote for a member of the Hyde Park left regardless of his or her skin color or ancestry. I’d have the stones to tell pollsters, even odious leftist push-pollsters, even to their face.
Some people don’t have the guts to express their true feelings about a candidate’s ideologies or positions when the candidate is black, hence the Bradley effect.
I stand corrected. You made an excellent point. The “Bradley effect” is about race, but is anti-racist, not racist in nature. I got that one wrong. (Don’t tell anyone!)
But now I find myself disheartened because McCain speaks calmly at a rally, clearly intending to demonstrate how presidential he is, and he gets crucified on this website by people who are angry, very angry that he doesn’t foam at the mouth and call Obama an Arab Muslim terrorist socialist fascist. One guy, I think it was “patriot08” said, “McCain has obviously given up.” Others were asking if it was too late to replace him with Romney or Giuliani.
How does it help to say this kind of thing about our own guy? Ronald Reagan would be very disappointed.