Bradley effect

Throughout this election cycle, many Democrats have assumed that Sen. Barack Obama must take a lead of more than one or two percentage points in the polls into Election Day because his actual numbers will get knocked down a notch by the so-called Bradley Effect — the idea that some voters disingenuously tell pollsters that [...]

COMMENTARY
The talking heads pretty much got it wrong. It was an anti-gun ballot measure — more than his race — that cost Tom Bradley the California governorship.

It is getting pretty ugly on the road with the McCain campaign — and that may be an indication the character attacks on Sen. Barack Obama are working.
After Gov. Sarah Palin spent a couple of days making an issue of Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers, Sen. John McCain yesterday asked a rally in [...]