Did Obama "Supporters" Lie to pollsters?

[antiimperialist]

slate Magazine

...One theory is that voters contacted by pollsters are more likely to say they support a black candidate running against a white candidate out of desire to seem progressive. Social psychologists called this “social desirability” – the urge to act in ways that one believes his or her environment finds appropriate.

In a February 2007 article, the Pew Research Center noted that this effect was decidedly less pronounced in 2006. While black candidates lost four of five statewide races against white opponents, the polling tended to reflect this. “Taken together,” it states, “the accuracy of the polling in these five biracial elections suggests that the problems that bedeviled polling in the 1980s and early 1990s may no longer be so serious.”

http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/01/08/did-n-h-voters-lie-about-supporting-obama.aspx

[Incitatus]

1. n

[featherman]

2. Later data on the Bradley Effect" - thanks for the info

[magatte]

3. Or, maybe Hillary supporters were too ashamed to admit they voted for her...

And consequently didn't answer any exit polls but went straight home...

[Demeter]

4. While NH Primary is More Representative than Iowa Caucus

They are both still unrepresentative of the nation.

[annabanana]

5. All this post-election naval gazing is just so much bs

There is one explanation. It's the same one as in 2000 & 2004

[Maribelle]

6. Republicans registered as Undeclared lied

This issue does not seem to be addressed, as the MSM and even so called democrats refuse to even approach the subject of republican corruption in NH.

What appears to have happened yesterday is that those corrupt republicans registered as UNDECLARED chose to vote for McCain because they were afraid Romney would win in NH.

[bemildred]

7. Polls are horseshit. They have always been horseshit. nt