A poll showed that conservatives were afraid to express their opinions while liberals weren't. That has always been the case. William F. Buckley once said that liberal intolerance wasn't just hostility to other opinions but astonishment that there even was another opinion. The belief was that it was impossible for someone to be simultaneously intelligent & conservative.


When I was at NYU, 1962-1967, the assumption was just that; if you were intelligent you were liberal. We had Viet-Nam War teach-ins. Of course, the speakers were overwhelmingly anti.


They had tables at each for those in attendance to send their congressmen and senators letters against it. I tried to send one advising mine to bomb Hanoi and mine Hai-Phong. A woman came charging around the table at me, with assault on her face! (FYI – I have changed my views about foreign intervention, since then.)



In 1980, as election day dawned, the pundits were all talking about a squeaker that would could go into Wednesday before we would know the results. All the polls had it as a dead heat between incumbent Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, with a large bloc of undecideds.



As is turned out, it was a landslide for Reagan. Just seven(?) states went for Carter. Carter conceded by 8 PM. Later, David Brinkley, at a roundtable groused, “What happened?”



What had happened was that the undecideds broke, heavily, for Reagan. Many admitted that they were hesitant to reveal that they favored Reagan.



As it turned out, Carter’s personal pollsters had given him the last minute bad news the night before. He’d had a staff meeting and when he spoke about the closeness of the race, he broke into tears. The staff immediately knew that something was up.



That’s the take home lesson on this. People are even more afraid today to admit they plan to vote for Trump. This is especially as evidenced by the flagrant assaults by Antifa & Black Lives Matter on conservatives.



This will come back to bite the Democrats in the ass. They’ll come to regret being nice to them.

Trump new the Senate would cover it up for him.
There was no distraction he wasted months saying things like its another democrat hoax,
We have 5 cases in a week we will have none, it will just go away, most people it will be like a cold . Just a few weeks ago he wanted to slow testing down because it created more cases. I live in AZ you can Waite all day in your car for a test and be turned away.
And if you do get tested it will be 14 or more days before you get the results, I'm not a Dr but I would say that method of testing was a waist of time.
He stoped travel to China but let travel from Italy,European countries and Asia in.
Incompetent, no other word to describe it.

How about a link to your bounty is it like the bounty Russia put on our troops but trumps to afraid to talk to Putin about.
Why is the US the world leader in covd cases ,and why is over 150,000 dead mild I know people that got it one spent 19 days in hospital and Is now home but she will never be fully recovered.
Why does the vice president speek to kids in a class room and remove his mask what's the message he's sending. For your information Italy Spain and Korea were being severely decimated by the virus and were still allowed to travel here.