Bad News for BamBi

It seems the Bradley effect is still in play. A large chunk of Democrats and Independents probably won’t vote for Obama because of his race. The current polls are misleading.

The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.

More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters Obama can’t win the White House without — agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks, according to the survey, and they are significantly less likely to vote for Obama than those who don’t have such views.

I don’t think race plays role in most people’s thinking and this study bears this out. But one third is still more than enough to hurt his chances when you consider the polls are so close and many Hillary voters will not vote for Obama.

We’ll only know for sure come election day. Which is almost here.

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