Prejudice

Via Matt Nesbit's Framing Science blog, this is an informative Boston Globe article summarizing research on race and gender stereotyping, and assessing implications for the Presidential election.

Along somewhat similar lines, in a number of past elections white candidates running against black candidates have done better on election day than they did in polls. But as this comparison of poll numbers and electoral results from the primaries to date shows, Barack Obama has actually done better in final results than in final polls in a majority of states so far.