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   Bradley effect

   The Bradley effect, less commonly called the Wilder effect, is a theory proposed to explain observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some US government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.
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   Tom Bradley (politician)

   The racial dynamics that appeared to underlie his narrow and unexpected loss in 1982 gave rise to the political term "the Bradley effect."
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   Bradley

   Bradley effect, a discrepancy between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in American elections
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   Obama effect

   The study by two researchers at the University of Washington suggests the country may be witnessing a reversal of the so-called Bradley effect, in which support for African-American candidates is overstated when people talk to pollsters but then vote against the candidate in the privacy of the polling booth.
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   List of effects

   Bradley effect (American political terms) (elections in the United States) (political history of the United States) (political neologisms) ((politics and race) (polling) (psephology) (racism)
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   Fishtown Effect

   It is a suggested opposite for the Bradley effect, named after Tom Bradley, an African-American who lost the 1982 California governor's race despite being ahead in voter polls going into the elections.
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   California gubernatorial election, 1982

   The incorrect polling numbers led to the theory — later dubbed "the Bradley effect" — that a statistically significant number of voters had given inaccurate responses when questioned by pollsters.
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   Reactivity (psychology)

   Bradley effect
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   Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008

   Polling analysts are expected to take note of whether opinion polling statistics regarding Obama prove to be accurate, or are ultimately subject to the so-called "Bradley effect" observed in some previous American elections.
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    Spiral of silence

    Bradley effect

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