This supports my theory that voting is almost always an emotional
response for the vast majority of voters. People will say one thing
and do another based on subconscious emotional response.
The right wing/conservative candidates have long understood this.
That's why they play the fear card(terrorism, communism, crime etc)
so often. It works. The Left wing/Liberal candidates are constantly
trying to play to intellectual motivations and they fail
consistently.
Bosco
--- ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The term Bradley effect or Wilder effect refers to a phenomenon
> which
> has led to inaccurate voter opinion polls in some American
> political
> campaigns between a white candidate and a non-white candidate.
> Specifically, there have been instances in which statistically
> significant numbers of white voters tell pollsters in advance of an
>
> election that they are either genuinely undecided, or likely to
> vote
> for the non-white candidate, but those voters exhibit a different
> behavior when actually casting their ballots. White voters who said
>
> that they were undecided break in statistically large numbers
> toward
> the white candidate, and many of the white voters who said that
> they
> were likely to vote for the non-white candidate ultimately cast
> their
> ballot for the white candidate. This reluctance to give accurate
> polling answers has sometimes extended to post-election exit polls
> as
> well.
>
> Researchers who have studied the issue theorize that some white
> voters give inaccurate responses to polling questions because of a
> fear that they might appear to others to be racially prejudiced.
> Some
> research has suggested that the race of the pollster conducting the
>
> interview may factor into that concern. At least one prominent
> researcher has suggested that with regard to pre-election polls,
> the
> discrepancy can be traced in part by the polls' failure to account
> for general conservative political leanings among late-deciding
> voters.
>
>
>
>
I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead.
I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said.
You know these things that happen,
That's just the way it's supposed to be.
And I can't help but wonder,
Don't ya know it coulda been me.
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