http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/304114572356584.php
"So why has no commentator yet "called" the election? Why has
virtually every Obama supporter West Indian or American, white or
black responded with a painful mix of hope and dread, a misty-eyed
or husky "God, I hope so" as if affirming belief in an Obama victory
were something that lay at the very limit of his/her courage?
The answer, of course, is "the Bradley effect": the suspicion that
whatever white Americans tell the pollsters, in the privacy of the
voting booth enough will vengefully cast their vote against the black
man to throw the election to McCain after all.
Reports Politico: "There's the assumption that racial antagonisms are
an unexploded bomb in this contest.'
The Bradley effect will occur, of course no society sheds its
cunning knuckle-draggers in one fell swoop. The question is: on what
scale? In the Democratic primaries, it appeared most virulently in New
Hampshire ("the most racist state north of Mason-Dixie", according to
a white American colleague who'd lived there), confounding a 17-point
Obama lead in the polls. And in states like Massachusetts and
California, no doubt "Bradley" gave Clinton her bigger-than-predicted
wins."
The world,and most Americans it seems, fear America's racist
underpinnings too much to give Barak the election, although by most
previous yardsticks, he's already won it.
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