immune to the venom of hatred to achieve the peace and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts. more news at the top of the hour. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. his guest this week as mary bousted, one of the teaching union leaders. hello and welcome to political thinking. it was another week when children and parents had to wait anxiously for an early morning text or an email to tell them whether their classroom or their school would open that day. thanks not to covid 19, not to a big dump of snow, but to strike action by members of the national education union this week on political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone in the news, my guest is the joint general secretary of that union, the neu, mary bousted. she is notjust the general secretary of the largest education union in europe, she has been a leader of a trade union for longer than almost anybody else in the country. she w
worried her roof might collapse. elizabeth, were you on the fence about whether or not you were going to evacuate. i was so afraid either way, i didn t know what to do. a lot of people have that idea that they can just wait and see what s going to happen. and that s the problem, because if they wait to see, we won t be able to help them. reporter: and it s not just seniors refusing to leave, going viral online, some florida residents adamant about riding out the storm. our family lives right outside of tampa and we have decided to hunker down. for the people who are not from florida, right, i ve got these big old windows. i don t know if they re going to hold up. reporter: but most are taking the warnings to heart. major roadways have been jammed for the last 24 hours and tampa s airport, completely shut down operations at 5:00 p.m. tuesday. reporter: it was nerve-racking. i literally got the last flight for the day. you re counting your lucky stars right now?
saturday. smerconish is up next. voting with conviction. i m michael smerconish. can anything shake donald trump s hold on the republican nomination? the polls are nothing if not consistent. here s what they show. joe biden and donald trump are the likely favorites to win their party s presidential nomination. as of today, that matchup is close viewed nationally or by battleground states, it s probably trump who is in the lead. polls show americans overwhelmingly think the country is headed in the wrong direction. trump benefits from the perception that he s best for the economy and kept the united states out of war. biden perceived by many as being too old for the job, of course, as bad as the polling has been for biden, tuesday s off year elections for big for the democrats. big in ohio, kentucky, virginia. from the day after coverage in the washington post, there was this. for democrats, tuesday s results were an ant dote. polls don t vote. it quickly became a post tue