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election 2008: presidential race in minnesota; MOOD AT THE POLLS; Hope, anxiety, pride mingle as ballots are cast; From new citizens to senior citizens, voters at Burnsville's Precinct 16 flocked to a ski lodge to express their support for the nation's next leader.(NEWS)

Article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Article date: November 05, 2008 Author: Brown, Curt

Byline: CURT BROWN; STAFF WRITER

They were all there at the bottom of the Buck Hill ski mound, also known as Burnsville's Precinct 16: The National Guard troops back from Iraq. An undecided machinist. And a first-time Somali-American voter who came back to vouch for her immigrant neighbors who became U.S. citizens recently.

As the sunrise crept over Interstate 35 at 7 a.m., more than 100 voters snaked out the door of the Buckstone Lodge ski and snowboarding school -- a unique polling place on a unique Election Day.

Mothers with kids in strollers joined churchgoers, ...

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Race Didn't Defeat Bradley: He Was Too Liberal

Posted Oct 20, 08 9:27 AM CDT in Politics,  Opinion 

Race Didn't Defeat Bradley: He Was Too Liberal
Source: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

(Newser) – If Barack Obama loses in November, the media will surely cite the Bradley Effect, the theory that voters lie to pollsters to hide racial biases. It’s named after Tom Bradley, the black mayor of Los Angeles who lost the 1982 governor’s race in California, despite huge leads in the polls. But Bradley didn’t lose because he was black, argues Sal Russo, who worked on rival George Deukmejian’s campaign. He was too liberal.

Inside the Deukmejian campaign, the results shocked no one. Their private polling showed the contest tightening in the race’s final days, as Deukmejian began attacking Bradley’s record on crime and gun control. As with Obama, a fawning media overlooked Bradley’s flaws. “Bradley was defeated because he was too liberal, not too black,” Russo concludes. Obama could suffer the same fate.

More about:  Barack Obama • Election 2008 • Obama 2008 • race • polls • Bradley effect • Tom Bradley

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Shhh. Don't
Tell: I'm Voting for Obama

Disgusted Republicans could cancel out
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Washington Post Washington Post Oct 22, 08 2:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are plenty of unpredictable factors that might elude pollsters, Kathleen Parker writes in the Washington Post. Most famous is the Bradley Effect. “While some have minimized the impact of a Bradley Effect in this election, we'd be wrong to discount it. Anti-black has morphed to some degree into anti-foreigner and anti-Muslim.” But there may be a Reverse-Bradley Effect among moderate Republicans horrified by the McCain campaign. More »

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