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Old 01-09-2008, 03:22 PM   #9
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SeattleUte has a little shameless behaviour in the past
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters View Post
This has happened before, where the polls say a black candidate is doing well, but in the end, gets drilled. Meaning that people lied to pollsters about voting for the black candidate, but under the cover of anonymity, voted for the white candidate. Wilder in Virginia is an example of this.
This is a well known and accepted phenomenon. Almost every election the polls exagerrate support for a black candidate. I heard a detailed story on this on NPR about a month ago. Something similar may happen to Romney if it becomes shameful to say you won't vote for a Mormon.
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