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servative Democrats and independents who publicly proclaimed support for Wilder — and many who told pollsters they would vote for Wilder — silently flipped the voting switch for Coleman in the privacy of the voting booth.
Dr. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, commenting on the erroneous exit polling in the gubernatorial contest, said it was obvious that many of those surveyed lied in saying they had voted for Wilder. The exit polling, he noted, was right on the money in forecasting big victories for Beyer and Democratic Attorney-General Mary Sue Terry.
Thus/Wilder’s race was apparently a major factor in making the outcome of the gubernatorial battle the closest ever in state history.
And because few people in these enlightened days are likely to tell anyone outright that they would vote against a political candidate merely because of his or her color, some of the skewed polling of the Washington and Richmond newspapers can probably be explained.
Even so, I know of few impartial observers who believed that Wilder would win by 11 points or that there were as many as 19 percent voters undecided just a few days before the election.
The consensus was that Wilder
94.6%