Phil mentions the Bradley effect and the Tweety effect in his comment on the earlier post on the New Hampshire primary.
Bradley effect argues that white folks will tell a pollster that they will vote for a black candidate (former LA Mayor Tom Bradley) but in the secrecy of the voting booth, they don't.
Tweety effect argues that people get so angry at smug, mysogynist pundits that they change their vote to prove them wrong.
But as I raised in the earlier post today, I want to be sure that the discussions and investigations of the New Hampshire primary also consider seriously the Diebold Effect. This, as the name implies, is the effect of people tampering with the Diebold voting machines to tilt the vote to their advantage.
[See more recent post on State of Alaska study on other state voting systems.]
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