As a young man I was very familiar with your namesake.
I’m not sure I buy into the “Wilder Effect” as represented by the MSM, which is that White people are reluctant to admit they don’t support a Black candidate to a pollster.
To say: “Since we don’t know why the polls are off it must be racisim.” is way too convenient a way to slander a large group of people as rednecked racists. It satisfies too many elitist preconceptions to be true.
The real impact of the “Wilder Effect” is that dumb white people will vote for Obama and brag about it to establish themselves as pure white person. Damn the country but I am a chic white person.