From TechPresident co-founder Andrew Rasiej: The Bradley Effect, in which black politicians receive fewer votes on Election Day than polls predicted, will be overtaken this year by “the Obama Effect,” in which white folks who claimed not to be voting for Obama secretly do so.

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Hat tip: Megan Garber at CJR.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.