Michael Smearconish said on Today show that Dems in NH said they

[Ilsa]

were voting for Obama in order to look politically correct to the pollsters. He basically said Dems were liars and hypocrites for saying one thing and doing another.

I wish NBC would stop letting human-pig hybrids on tv.

[sojourner]

1. who?

[Poiuyt]

6. He's a conservative radio talk show host from Philadelphia

Chris Matthews used to have him on his show all the time

[rodeodance]

2. who are talking about please?

[Bitwit1234]

3. How many times have people said they were voting for one candidate

all the while they are going to vote for another. They do it all the time. When they called here during the last election, they asked him who he would vote for and he said bush. So what.

[Poiuyt]

4. The Bradley effect

The term Bradley effect or Wilder effect refers to a phenomenon which has led to inaccurate voter opinion polls in some American political campaigns between a white candidate and a non-white candidate.<1><2><3> Specifically, there have been instances in which statistically significant numbers of white voters tell pollsters in advance of an election that they are either genuinely undecided, or likely to vote for the non-white candidate, but those voters exhibit a different behavior when actually casting their ballots. White voters who said that they were undecided break in statistically large numbers toward the white candidate, and many of the white voters who said that they were likely to vote for the non-white candidate ultimately cast their ballot for the white candidate. This reluctance to give accurate polling answers has sometimes extended to post-election exit polls as well.

Researchers who have studied the issue theorize that some white voters give inaccurate responses to polling questions because of a fear that they might appear to others to be racially prejudiced. Some research has suggested that the race of the pollster conducting the interview may factor into that concern. At least one prominent researcher has suggested that with regard to pre-election polls, the discrepancy can be traced in part by the polls' failure to account for general conservative political leanings among late-deciding voters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect

[Ilsa]

10. Thank you for that explanation. It makes more since now. nt

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. I saw that puke fest, with Lauer spewing his bilious nonsense, as well. I ususally don't like Begala

much, but he sure looked as if he thought he'd stepped into the Twilight Zone, as Lauer and Smearny posited about how anyone could possibly think such harmless remarks as they and their fellow pundits make could be considered in the least bit racist. Finally, IIRC, Begala said that their speculation was just that and told both of them they were getting way off the mark and looked generally disgusted with the course of the conversation.

Argh, the corporomedia is talking so much out of its collective ass we're all having to choke on the methane fumes. MKJ

[OHdem10]

7. Sometimes the truth is painful. Yes sometimes the other side

tells the truth as painful as it is. People are sick of
polls and they fib just to screw up reporters and pollsters.

The sad truth about Political Correctness for both parties:

If you shut people up, you force them to lie in public.

Change takes place in the heart. Shut people up and their
heart cannot be changed.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. boredcast TV - the new Island of Dr. Moreau

what an analogy

[mth44sc]

9. How does that work out

Obama got the percentage of the vote he was projected in the polls to get. Who lied?