[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Ahh, thanks for the edification.

I actually thought they performed rather respectably during the 2000 presidential election, apparently, memory does not serve me correctly.

[dangus]

No, they might have been favorites among a lot of right-wingers, but that was probably they were telling us what we wanted to hear. They were the worst, predicting a nine-point landslide.