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“One of the quips Reagan scribbled on a notepad after waking up after surgery was Winston Churchill’s famous line from his autobiography My Early Life that “there is no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result.”
― Steven F. Hayward, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989

“week before the election, the New Republic’s Morton Kondracke wrote that “it seems more likely by the day that Ronald Reagan is not going to execute a massive electoral sweep. In fact, the movement of the presidential campaign suggests a Carter victory.â€�14 David Broder had written: “There is no evidence of a dramatic upsurge in Republican strength or a massive turnover in Congress.â€� Though polls in the days leading up to the election showed Reagan ahead of Carter, most were near or within the margin of error, and everyone was predicting a late-night nail-biter. The New York Times poll three days out had Reagan ahead by a single point; veteran California pollster Mervin Field said, “At the moment there is a slight movement toward Carter.â€� George Gallup said, “This election could very well be a cliffhanger just like 1948.â€�15”
― Steven F. Hayward, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989