I wasn't making a personal attack, DougR. For the record, I do NOT think YOU are dumb. But we all say some dumb things now and then, and you've launched a couple of doozies at me in the last few days, including the one on this thread and the one where you blame CBS for not knowing the future! When someone says something I think is dumb, I sometimes say "that's dumb."

But I don't think I've EVER said "you're dumb" in that situation.

As I said, it's not a question of how important "if" is. All of us here who are not morons or did not just crawl out from under a rock know that a "poll" does not determine the outcome of an election to be helld in two months. Thus the "if" could be assumed by all the non-moron non-rock people here.

Your bringing it up was thus just an attempt to heckle me. And it was a pretty dumb attempt.

YOU, however, are not dumb.