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Title: Sebelius Revives Fears of ‘Bradley Effect’ With Race Comment
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URL Source: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/0 ... dley-effect-with-race-comment/
Published: Sep 18, 2008
Author: Kathleen Sebelius
Post Date: 2008-09-18 11:11:37 by Jethro Tull
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By Bill Sammon

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has revived Democratic fears of a 60;Bradley effect61; by suggesting that some Americans who claim to support Barack Obama will end up voting against him because he is black.

While campaigning for Obama in Iowa Tuesday, Sebelius was asked why the election is so close.

60;Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?61; the Democrat said. 60;That may be a factor. All the code language, all that doesn57;t show up in the polls. And that may be a factor for some people.61;

Sebelius appeared to be alluding to the 60;Bradley effect,61; a political phenomenon in which African-American candidates fare better in opinion polls than in actual elections. The effect is named for black Democrat Tom Bradley, who lost the California governor57;s race in 1982 even though he was ahead in the polls.

Currently, most polls show Obama tied with John McCain. But if there is a Bradley effect, such polls could be masking a McCain lead.

60;Obama will need a clear pre-election poll lead over McCain to win; a tie isn57;t going to do it for him, in all probability,61; said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia57;s Center for Politics. 60;It57;s naïve to expect that there won57;t be some racial leakage on election day.

60;Some voters will have told pollsters in advance that they are voting for Obama, and maybe to some degree that was their intention,61; he added. 60;But whatever they have said in advance, they will get in the booth and be unable to vote for the black candidate. I would expect these voters to be disproportionately, but not exclusively, blue-collar, working class Democrats and Democratically-leaning Independents.61;

Civil rights author Juan Williams said Obama cannot go into the November election tied with McCain in the polls if he expects to win the presidency.

60;Obama57;s got to have a buffer of 5 to 8 percentage points,61; Williams said. 60;So if you have a race in which McCain is at, you know, 41, and Obama57;s at 41, then imagine that really what you57;re looking at is McCain at 49, Obama at 41.61;

Not all scholars believe in the Bradley effect.

60;In the early 1990s, there was a pronounced gap between polling and performance for black candidates of about 2.3 percentage points,61; concluded Daniel Hopkins of Harvard after studying 133 gubernatorial and Senate elections between 1989 and 2006. 60;But in the mid-1990s, that upward bias in telephone surveys disappears.61;

Political analyst Michael Barone said the nature of telephone polling might explain the waning of the Bradley effect.

60;We now have these robo-polls in which you57;re not responding to a person,61; Barone said. 60;If people are reluctant to tell a live interviewer they57;re voting against a black candidate, would they have the same reluctance on a robo-poll? It57;s plausible to believe they would not. After all, it57;s a machine.61;

Regardless of whether the Bradley effect manifests itself in this presidential race, some Republicans are accusing Sebelius of injecting race into the campaign.

60;Governor Sebelius57;s remarks in Iowa City today are hurtful and divisive at best,61; said Caleb Hunter, executive director of the Iowa GOP. 60;With less than 50 days to go, Democrats will continue to try and change the focus away from the issues that will decide this election.61;

But Sabato said race is part and parcel of the campaign.

60;This is sensitive stuff,61; he said. 60;I keep hearing from people that the subject shouldn57;t be discussed. But that57;s ridiculous. Sebelius is just being realistic.61;

Bill Sammon is Washington deputy managing editor for FOX News Channel.


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Well hell....we were talking about this months ago. It's about time some understand the power of PC. If the polls are close, add 5-8% to the McCain side. And that's the way it is.... Subscribe to *Obama Reality Check*

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#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0) (Edited)

The Obamaites want the race issue to play only one way - in their favor. The love to use the "the only reason he won't win is racism" innuendo all the time. But when somebody points out the obvious - like Ferraro saying that BHO would never be where he is if his race didn't make him a PC poster boy for the media and DNC, then suddenly "race doesn't matter, it could have only been his amazing talent that got Obama where he is!"

The Obamaphiles also love the fact that they can use the white guilt card to get white elites on board, but then don't like to own up to the reality of the "Bradley effect."

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#8. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#7)

Well said, R_P. Many here told the white guilters all about the BE months ago, only to be laughed at. Now, with things close, they can't ignore reality. The PC they embrace is coming back to bite them square in the ass and it's delightful :)

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#10. To: Jethro Tull (#8)

The Bradley effect is the backlash of white guilt, which is mostly about keeping up appearances in PC social circles. Many white guilters like to say that they support Obama when they're around their friends, but have no intention of voting for him in November.

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