After Months of Decoding Innocuous Speech for Racial Bias, Media Discovers There Was No White Bias During Election

Of course, they don't bother to explain the fact Obama got 106.8% of the African-American vote, but since blacks can't be racist according to liberals, we'll leave that angle for another day.

Still, now that we've achieved the vaunted post-racial nirvana, maybe the media can stop obsessing on this, though I highly doubt that, as they'll analyze even the slightest criticism from this point forward seeking some subtle code words.

It'll go something like this. Critic A says "I don't like Obama's new tax policy." The media will say to Critic A: "You're racist, pay up."

All the ominous predictions, all the fretting about hidden votes and closeted racists frustrating a victory for the nation’s first African-American president came down to this: the so-called Bradley effect did not exist.

People did not lie — to pollsters or to themselves — about whether they would vote for a black man. The polls, national and statewide, generally predicted the results with accuracy.

“The unambiguous answer is that there was no Bradley effect,” said Mark Blumenthal, the editor and publisher of Pollster.com, a Web site that publishes and analyzes poll results.

A different question, of course, is whether race was a factor in how people voted, and for a small group of voters — 19 percent — it was, according to surveys of voters leaving the polls. But race turned out to be less of an issue than predicted even three months ago, when twice that percentage in a CNN poll said it would be at least a small factor in their vote.

From this day forward, we will describe The Bradley Effect as what happens to you when you watch for New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley on television: You usually fall asleep.

It remains to be seen whether attitudes on race have changed for the long term. Concerns about the economy may have simply prompted people to set aside racist attitudes. Or Mr. Obama’s growing lead in many pre-election polls may have caused people to rethink opinions about whether a black man could lead the country.

But if election polling showed anything about attitudes on race, it may have been about Americans’ quickness to ascribe racial motives; to some extent, they blame racism more than they actually act on it — or at least, vote on it. In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted in late October, Obama supporters were more likely than McCain voters to say they knew someone who was not supporting Mr. Obama because he is black. McCain backers were more likely than Obama supporters to say they knew someone who was supporting him because he is black.

No matter what happens during Obama's presidency, the liberal media will blame potential failures on whites who don't support him. This has been their worldview for decades and no matter how much they pretend to move beyond it, they never will. If Obama is a failure, they won't attribute it to bad policy. It will be nefarious hidden racism that will do him in.

Mark it down.