The Thurmond Effect

[JohnnyRingo]

We've heard over and over about "The Bradley Effect" where white people answer polls by expressing their support for the African American candidate, then punching the card for the Republican when no one is looking. Some say this could add up to as much as five or six percent this year.

I want to introduce "The Thurmond Effect". As we recall, Strom Thurmond was a racist and a segregationist his entire political life. He used the strongest of language to denounce blacks as inferior subhumans. When he died, we discovered he had a black daughter.

The point behind the theory is, when no one was looking he put his prejudices aside for what he saw as his better interests.

I'm not joking when I posit that while many people made a sudden conversion this year from voting for Kerry last time, when they get in the voting booth, they might rethink their bias and quietly punch the ticket for the man they know will do a better job.

They can still go to work and talk trash at the coffee machine, secretly knowing they did the right thing for their country. It may not cancel The Bradley Effect, but I think it'll take a big chunk out of it.

[Lint Head]

1. I'm from South Carolina and we called him Sperm Thurmond.

The Thurmond effect is that he was an unrepentant racist that had a child with an African American woman. Once he got in there he had to pull the trigger. :dem: