{"id":193,"date":"2008-10-04T12:57:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/obama-and-bradley\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:46:05","slug":"obama-and-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/obama-and-bradley\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Bradley ran for governor of California in 1982.  Bradley, a black man, was leading in the polls by over 10%.  However, he lost the election.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called Bradley Effect was named after this event.  In several other elections in the US the actual votes received by African Americans was significantly less than polls predicted.<\/p>\n<p>There are some theories on why this happens, with the most popular being that voters might be embarrassed to sound racist and so lie to pollsters.  When they get in the voting booth, inner bias takes over.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show that Obama has a 3% &#8211; 7% advantage (depending on the poll).  If the Bradley effect affects this race, that may not be enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Bradley ran for governor of California in 1982. Bradley, a black man, was leading in the polls by over 10%. However, he lost the election. The so-called Bradley Effect was named after this event. In several other elections in the US the actual votes received by African Americans was significantly less than polls predicted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}