07-05-2016, 08:02 AM
(07-02-2016, 12:05 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-02-2016, 08:20 AM)Anthony Wrote: But what about The Bradley Effect?
Might not people be lying to pollsters because they don't want to be seen as "male chauvinists" since they're not willing to support a woman for President?
I doubt that's a big factor, but some people might be reluctant to admit they are voting for Trump because of his various campaign statements and characteristics.
Or more specifically, that Donald Trump seems dangerously capricious, divisive, and reckless. The Bradley Effect applies so far to black candidates who suggest a primal fear to many of subordination to someone unlike oneself.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.