memeorandum: Poll: Bush approval rating dips to 35 percent (CNN)

10:30 AM ET, November 6, 2006

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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.

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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 …

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USA Today:
Saddam, 2 co-defendants sentenced to hang for Shiite slayings

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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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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 …

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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Nearly Final Senate Polling Averages

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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Gallup Sees Same Slide

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Gallup Poll:
Democrats Lead Republicans in House Vote by Seven Points

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Nadine Elsibai / Bloomberg:
Democrats Have Narrower Lead in Election, Polls Find (Update1)

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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.

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CNN:

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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," …

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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 …

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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 …