# How real/significant is the "Bradley Effect"?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 16, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-real-significant-is-the-bradley-effect/463837 "2008-09-16T14:15:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_shameful\_cracka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@A\_shameful\_cracka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_shameful_cracka)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-real-significant-is-the-bradley-effect/463837/21 "2008-09-19T18:56:38Z")

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My brother-in-law, who I always thought of as a pretty nice guy with fairly liberal attitudes, revealed in a conversation about politics lately that he wouldn’t vote for a black guy. He’s not going to vote for McCain instead, but he’s going to stay home in an election where he probably would have voted for a white Democratic candidate.

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