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The Reverse Bradley Effect
Tweet Share on Facebook November 4, 2008 Comment (9)So after months of Democratic race-baiting, it seems not all Republicans wear hooded robes. Exit polling by CNN shows not only that Obama's skin color wasn't terribly important, but that the presumptive President-elect actually benefited from being black.
As CNN's Bill Schneider notes:
About 20 percent of voters said race was important in how they voted, and those people voted for Obama by an 11-point margin, 55 percent to 44 percent. That means more people voted for Obama because of his race than against him. So much for the "Bradley effect."
And of the 80 percent of voters who said race was not a factor in their decision voted nearly the same way, breaking for Obama 53 percent to 45 percent. That means race played a role, but it was not a decisive factor.
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The McCain Campaign's Incompetence About Barack Obama's War on Coal-Fired Power Plants
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2008 Comment (42)For a sense of how ineffectively managed the McCain campaign is, consider the last-minute flap over coal. In a January 17 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Barack Obama declared war on America's coal-fired plants, pledging to regulate the industry so aggressively that "it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
Obama's comments had the potential to hit him hard in states like West Virginia (leaning McCain), Ohio (tossup), and Pennsylvania (leaning Obama, and critical to the McCain campaign), and McCain's people are milking them for all their worth.
The wonder, however, is that Obama's comments are only now getting attention from Republicans, 10 months after they were posted online and just a day before the election.
