English Explanatory Dictionary

Wilder effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Synonym of Bradley effect (“theory about white voters and polling”).

Word forms

Wilder effect the Wilder effect

Etymology

Named in reference to the 1989 race for Governor of Virginia between Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, an African-American, and Republican Marshall Coleman, who was white.

Synonyms

Bradley effect
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