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CAMPAIGN WRECKS & EFFECTS: WILL “BRADLEY” REAR ITS UGLY HEAD IN NOVEMBER?

Chances are, you’ve heard chatter on CNN or MSNBC about the “Bradley Effect”. Named for Tom Bradley, a candidate in the 1982 California Gubernatorial Race, it refers to instances when a number of Whites who claim to have voted for a Black candidate were lying, which skews the predictions of the outcome. In simplest terms, say you have 100 voters at a particular polling place. In exit polls (when someone asks you who you voted for after it is said and done), 80 people claim to have voted for Candidate A. The other 20 voted for Candidate B.  But when the votes are counted, Candidate B receives 49 votes. Basically, folks lied.

Tom Bradley and the people who treated him

Tom Bradley was predicted to win via exit poll data, but in fact lost. The same suspicious phenomenon has occurred in a number of other races: Jesse Jackson for President, Harold Washington for Mayor of Chicago,  Douglass Wilder for Governor of Virginia, David Dinkins for Mayor of New York City, etc. While some of these races were still won by the Black candidate, the margin of victory was not consistent with the number of people who had claimed to have voted for them.

With McCain/Palin rallies starting to resemble lynching parties, one can’t help but to wonder how ready this county is for a Black president. But while we know where the loud and proud McCain supporters stand…what about the other White (or Asian or Latino folks)? Those who travel in circles where Obama is the candidate of choice, but who may quietly feel otherwise? Who are publicly supporting the Blue ticket because they are afraid of being called a racist if they claim otherwise…and are actually unable/unwilling/unsure about voting a Black man for President? › Continue reading

Tags: election 08, mcain, OBAMA, politics

VOTE OR DIE, NO, SRSLY

Hey, look who’s bizack! I know it’s been a long time since you’ve heard from Blind I’s resident hater player, but alas Sister Toldja has returned. You know you missed me.

Anyway, I got something serious to talk to y’all about and I hope you’re listening. Now, the Hip-Hop community is all abuzz with Obama fever these days. Cats are shouting him out on songs (for better or worse), you see his face plastered on t-shirts all up and down the ave, etc. But did you know that 8 MILLION Black folk in this country aren’t registered to vote? And that had Ohio’s 270,000 unregistred Black voters stepped up to the plate, the state could have been won in the 2004 election? Had the same occurred in Florida as well, we could have avoided the past eight years of misery. And NOW look what we are facing:

Mickey and Mallory 2008

It is my fear that if John McCain and Sarah “You gotta be fucking kidding me” Palin are elected, we will all actually die. This is what I would imagine his first day in the Oval Office would look like…more info after the jump. › Continue reading

Tags: election 08, John McCain, sarah palin