yes it is a great day, yet the hard work is just beginning, we must not be fooled in to thinking everything is ok, there is a lot to fix, we must be equal to the task at hand, but i am very happy to have seen this day and as a black man very very proud of what he has done,i just hope and pray that nothing happens to him and maybe just maybe we can become one nation, one people
yes it is a great day, yet the hard work is just beginning, we must not be fooled in to thinking everything is ok, there is a lot to fix, we must be equal to the task at hand, but i am very happy to have seen this day and as a black man very very proud of what he has done,i just hope and pray that nothing happens to him and maybe just maybe we can become one nation, one people
WASHINGTON ? Whether whites supported Barack Obama or not, they don't seem to have lied to pollsters about it.
Obama's election triumph on Tuesday presented no evidence of the so-called Bradley effect, in which whites who oppose a black politician mislead pollsters about whom they will vote for. Instead, national and state pre-election polls were generally accurate in reflecting voters' preferences in the presidential contest.
"I certainly hope this drives a stake through the heart of that demon," Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and polling authority, said of the Bradley effect.
The phenomenon is named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American who in 1982 lost the race for California governor after leading in the polls. There were similar contests over the following decade in which black candidates facing white opponents had comfortable leads in polls, only to lose or narrowly win the elections.
Critics have said such turnabouts might have been largely the product of poor polling. Others have concluded that some whites, nervous about appearing to harbor anti-black feelings, in fact misled pollsters up through the early 1990s but that such behavior has faded over time.
If the Bradley effect were a factor, pre-election polls should have consistently overstated Obama's share of the vote, or understated McCain's. Instead, most did a solid job of previewing how the vote would go, both nationally and in crucial states.
And another interesting side note from AP:
WASHINGTON ? Whether whites supported Barack Obama or not, they don't seem to have lied to pollsters about it.
Obama's election triumph on Tuesday presented no evidence of the so-called Bradley effect, in which whites who oppose a black politician mislead pollsters about whom they will vote for. Instead, national and state pre-election polls were generally accurate in reflecting voters' preferences in the presidential contest.
"I certainly hope this drives a stake through the heart of that demon," Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and polling authority, said of the Bradley effect.
The phenomenon is named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American who in 1982 lost the race for California governor after leading in the polls. There were similar contests over the following decade in which black candidates facing white opponents had comfortable leads in polls, only to lose or narrowly win the elections.
Critics have said such turnabouts might have been largely the product of poor polling. Others have concluded that some whites, nervous about appearing to harbor anti-black feelings, in fact misled pollsters up through the early 1990s but that such behavior has faded over time.
If the Bradley effect were a factor, pre-election polls should have consistently overstated Obama's share of the vote, or understated McCain's. Instead, most did a solid job of previewing how the vote would go, both nationally and in crucial states.
The is not an end, but instead a beginning. A time to change the world's opinion of us, a time to change our health care system, a time to work on reducing environmental destruction....Obama will be in charge of this new beginning. Nice to think that from now on, children will never know of a time when an race or gender wasn't acceptable for the job of president. Thank god for the Obama Effect in 2008!
The is not an end, but instead a beginning. A time to change the world's opinion of us, a time to change our health care system, a time to work on reducing environmental destruction....Obama will be in charge of this new beginning. Nice to think that from now on, children will never know of a time when an race or gender wasn't acceptable for the job of president. Thank god for the Obama Effect in 2008!
We can only hope that Obama brings the same calm, measured, organized intelligence to the job that he showed in the campaign. If he does, boy, the good ol' USA is gonna fly!
We can only hope that Obama brings the same calm, measured, organized intelligence to the job that he showed in the campaign. If he does, boy, the good ol' USA is gonna fly!
