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10:30 AM ET, November 6, 2006

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Josh White / Washington Post:
Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating Results  —  For the U.S. troops fighting in Iraq, the war is alternately violent and hopeful, sometimes very hot and sometimes very cold.  It is dusty and muddy, calm and chaotic, deafeningly loud and eerily quiet.
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New York Times:
Bush Trumpets Hussein Verdict to Rally Support  —  President Bush on Sunday seized on the conviction of Saddam Hussein as a milestone in Iraq, seeking to rally Republican voters with the issue of national security as some polls suggested that his party might be making gains in the final hours of the campaign.
Washington Post:
Parties Crank Up Voter Turnout Efforts  —  Amid the Last-Minute Blitz, Some Polls Hold Positive Signs for Republicans  —  Republicans seized on signs of movement in their direction yesterday as they unleashed a massive election-eve voter mobilization operation in an effort …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Troops Speak Out Against Withdrawal
USA Today:
Polls: Dems' lead shrinking, but still strong  —  WASHINGTON — A national USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds remarkable parallels between the congressional elections Tuesday and the watershed elections in 1994 that swept Republicans into control of the House and Senate.
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Pew Research Center:
Republicans Cut Democratic Lead in Campaign's Final Days  —  Democrats Hold 47%-43% Lead Among Likely Voters  —  Summary of Findings  —  A nationwide Pew Research Center survey finds voting intentions shifting in the direction of Republican congressional candidates in the final days of the 2006 midterm campaign.
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
THAT AWFUL PEW POLL:  —  John Judis and I have been e-mailing about the alarming Pew poll that came out today.  It reflects the same trends captured by that earlier Washington Post/ABC poll, except that the trends are, gulp, even more pronounced.  Worse, the folks at Pew have graciously posted …
Gallup Poll:
Democrats Lead Republicans in House Vote by Seven Points
Discussion: Whiskey Bar
Nadine Elsibai / Bloomberg:
Democrats Have Narrower Lead in Election, Polls Find (Update1)
CNN:
Poll: Bush approval rating dips to 35 percent  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush's popularity has dipped to 35 percent, according to a new CNN poll, with 41 percent of likely voters saying their disapproval of his performance will affect their vote in Tuesday's elections for control of Congress.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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CNN:
Soldier dies of wounds from Afghanistan battle  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — An American soldier has died from wounds received during fighting in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Monday.  —  U.S. Army Specialist Isaiah Calloway, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Oct. 30, the U.S. military said.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Vote Theft, Robocalls, and Terry Nelson  —  Terry Nelson, an unindicted co-conspirator in the TRMPAC Tom Delay scandal, and the boss of Jim Tobin, the convicted felon in the NH phone-jamming case, is the head of opposition research for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Rove's Dirty Little Surprise
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Hastert May Face Post-Election Unrest  —  Foley Scandal Just One of Speaker's Problems  —  House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's future is in doubt even if the Republicans retain control of the House because of unease among GOP lawmakers about his handling of the Foley page scandal …
John / Argghhh!:
ATTACK ON THE FORTRESS OF SNARKITUDE!  —  Project Valour-IT, a program which has provided over 650 voice-activated laptops to wounded warriors so they can reconnect with family, friends, and the Internet, needs your help!  The campaign in Iraq is a war of IEDs, which results in many traumatic amputations …
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
New Telemarketing Ploy Steers Voters on Republican Path  —  An automated voice at the other end of the telephone line asks whether you believe that judges who "push homosexual marriage and create new rights like abortion and sodomy" should be controlled.  If your reply is "yes," …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Associated Press:
DICK CHENEY TO SPEND ELECTION DAY HUNTING  —  Vice President Dick Cheney is shown while quail hunting in South Dakota.  —  Vice President Dick Cheney is shown while quail hunting in South Dakota.  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will spend Election Day Tuesday …
Nick Schulz / TCS Daily:
TCS on Election 2006  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: Every year the President gives his State of the Union address.  And every two years, Americans get to deliver their sense of the state of the union by voting.  So what will it be in '06?  We asked several TCS contributors to predict what will happen on Tuesday …
 
 
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James Q. Wilson / Opinion Journal:
The Press at War  —  What ever happened to patriotic reporters?
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Ready for a New Party-in-Trouble
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
The Idiocracy Vote  —  Two recent polls — by the Pew Center …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Associated Press:
GOP rep. faults White House on Iraq site
Cliff Schecter:
Video from Cliff's appearance on MSNBC from November 5th:
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Dole: Dems 'Content With Losing' in Iraq
Greg Gordon / Real Cities:
FBI willing to go undercover in Congress if necessary
Rasmussen Reports:
Webb and Allen Dead Even
 Earlier Items: 
River / Baghdad Burning:
When All Else Fails...  ... Execute the dictator.  It's that simple.
Miami Herald:
Attorney General Charlie Crist holds comfortable lead in governor's race
Francis Elliott / Independent:
Allow 'active euthanasia' for disabled babies, doctors urge
Michelle Malkin:
"Operation Infiltration?"  —  Something rotten going on in Ohio?
Forkum / Cox & Forkum:
Election 2006  —  The end is near: Place your order for our new book …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
John F. Harris / Washington Post:
It's Game Time  —  Mary Matalin, a Republican who has been at this game …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as a Weapon
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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