There has been a lot of talk lately about the potential of the Bradley Effect having potential to turn the election. While poking around some numbers at Pollster.com, I found something that seemed unusual.
When live telephone polling is used, and a person has to tell another live person for whom they are voting, the race is indeed tightening. The interesting thing is when you filter the results, and take out those 'live' polls, and go only for automated telephone and internet polling, you get vastly different results. So, much like in the voting booth, when people are in private, and not giving their choice to a live person, but rather to a machine, the complete opposite of a Bradley effect seems to be in play.
See charts below the jump . . .
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