Wilder effect

English

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.

Proper noun

the Wilder effect

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