Barack Obama victory – NorthCoastBlog.com https://www.northcoastblog.com Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:33:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 So much for the Bradley Effect https://www.northcoastblog.com/2008/11/05/so-much-for-the-bradley-effect/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:33:58 +0000 https://www.northcoastblog.com/?p=1069 For the most part, the pollsters did a very good job in this election. Barack Obama appears to have won the popular vote by six points, which pretty much matches the polling averages. Rasmussen got the percentages exactly right, and Nate Silver’s projection was also accurate. Even the polls that were off a little were very close on Obama’s totals.

This should not be a surprise. With few exceptions (like New Hampshire), the polls were pretty accurate during the primaries. The pundits needed to fill air time, so many of them had to speculate about the Bradley Effect, but we now see that it no longer applies.

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