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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.
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Gallup Sees Same Slide — The USA Today/Gallup poll just out gives the Reps a perfect trifecta in the polls as, again, a huge lead is cut. Today the Dems only enjoy a meager 7 percentage point lead over the Reps. A month ago it was a 23 point lead, and two weeks ago it was 13 points.
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.
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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 …
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 …
Marc Sandalow / San Francisco Chronicle:
America's referendum on war — Pelosi's countdown: She ticks off a list of changes, including a new Iraq strategy — (11-05) 04:00 PST Glenside, Pa. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi warned that a Republican victory Tuesday would prolong the U.S. involvement in Iraq another 10 years …
Rasmussen Reports:
Webb and Allen Dead Even — Allen (R) 49% Webb (D) 49% — The latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the bitterly fought U.S. Senate race in Virginia shows the contest too close to call, with both Republican Senator George Allen and Democratic challenger James Webb collecting 49% (see crosstabs).
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CNN:
Haggard confesses to 'lifelong' sexual problem … COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) — Evangelical pastor Ted Haggard confessed on Sunday to a "lifelong" sexual problem, and said he was "a deceiver and a liar," in a letter read to his New Life Church. — "There is part of my life …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Limiting the Damage — President Bush isn't on the ballot tomorrow. But this election is, nonetheless, all about him. The question is whether voters will pry his fingers loose from at least some of the levers of power, thereby limiting the damage he can inflict in his two remaining years in office.
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," …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as a Weapon — During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and his aides sternly dismissed suggestions that the war was all about oil. "Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared.
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.
Michelle Malkin:
"Operation Infiltration?" — Something rotten going on in Ohio? Check out left-wing Buckeye State Blog, which appears to be trying to infiltrate GOP get-out-the-vote efforts: — Conservative website Free Republic is investigating and monitoring.
Francis Elliott / Independent:
Allow 'active euthanasia' for disabled babies, doctors urge — Doctors are urging health regulators to consider allowing the "active euthanasia" of severely disabled newborn babies. — The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology has put forward the option of permitting mercy killings …
John F. Harris / Washington Post:
It's Game Time — Mary Matalin, a Republican who has been at this game for years, is obviously very smart when it comes to elections. So, too, is Paul Kirk, a Democrat who has been at it even longer. — It is a bit odd, then, that when asked for their most coldly objective expertise …
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