I met up some very conservative college friends in Portland last weekend on our way to play golf. We avoid talking politics, but they couldn't help commenting that they expected to see a burnt out, impoverished city with scores of homeless on the streets. What they saw was a vibrant, lovely city full of people who look just like them. Fox news reporting meets reality. I've run into the same situation with Seattle. Conservative friends would call from Texas would tell me how horrible the CHOP was. The Fox reporting was far different from what we saw here on the ground.