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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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A Republican activist who did some simple computer research says he discovered an "open door" for fraud: more than 11,000 Palm Beach County voters who are also registered to vote in New York. Bill Skinner, the secretary of the Republican Club of Central Palm Beach County, said he obtained public voter records from the county and from New York and hired a programmer to find voters in one database who have the same first name, last name and date of birth as voters in the other. The search found 11,609 matches between Palm Beach County and the Empire State, Skinner...

"MoveOn's nationwide network of more than 1,700,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today."--Communist Party, USA, from "Unity and Coalitions" http://cpusa.org/link/category/21/

The congressional elections are still 3 days away yet the DUmmies are ALREADY celebrating their tremendous victory. Normal folks wait until a joyous event actually HAPPENS before celebrating it but the DUmmies just can't contain themselves. The ball is still on the 10 yard line but the DUmmies have rushed, sans the ball, into the end zone to do their victory dance as you can see in this THREAD victoriously titled, "Oh Boy, are you watching the coverage of the upcoming destruction of the GOP?" So let us now break out the Estrich '04 Victory Champagne and watch the...

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri (AP) -- President Bush, working a southwest Missouri campaign crowd like a yell leader, blasted Democrats on Friday, saying they have no plan to keep Americans safe from terrorists.Bush said Democrats calling for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq aren't unpatriotic, just wrong. He said Democrats who voted against legislation to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists, the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program and the Patriot Act don't understand the stakes in the war on terror."If they say they want to win the war on terror, but call for America to pull out of what al Qaeda says is the...

With just a few days left before election day, has there ever been a worse time to be a complacent voter? If you believe the hype, U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo is in favor of slaughtering horses, gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides is out to destroy our wetlands, and attorney general front-runner Jerry Brown will not rest until the entire state has a crime rate that matches East Oakland. Insurance commissioner hopeful Cruz Bustamante recently unleashed a bizarre campaign spot focusing almost entirely on his recent weight loss. Meanwhile, the opponents of some of the major propositions have spent tens of millions...

Republican candidate Bob Corker leads in the race for the Senate, according to Reuters/Zogby polls released Thursday. The independent poll found that Corker has a 10-point lead on his Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. to succeed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Corker leads with 53 percent of the vote compared to Ford with 43 percent. Zogby International conducted the new telephone poll for Reuters for 10 key Senate races. The poll indicated that victory is "moving toward safe territory for Republicans" according to a news release from Zogby. The Reuters/Zogby polls of 10 key Senate races were conducted...

Sen. Barack Obama may have thought a wrought iron fence would give him all the separation he needed from indicted Wilmette businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko. But before everything is said and done, our star senator is going to wish he'd done a lot more a lot sooner to distance himself from his longtime political supporter. On Wednesday, the other newspaper reported to our surprise that Obama and Rezko, in effect, are neighbors, having separately purchased adjoining parcels of the Kenwood estate where Obama lives. Adding to the strangeness of the coincidence is that they each closed their purchase on the...

A Statement from John Kerry As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop. I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended. It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don’t want my verbal slip to be a diversion...

The National Democratic Party has spent $50,000 promoting a nominal Republican write-in candidate to succeed former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a move the more prominent GOP campaign called a "desperate" effort to split the write-in vote. The mailout on behalf of write-in candidate Don Richardson describes positions potentially appealing to conservatives who, according to a recent Chronicle-11 News poll, make up at least 55 percent of the district's population. "Don Richardson supports President Bush's Patriot Act," the mailer says. "Do you?" It also says he would put troops on the border to stop illegal immigration, allow law enforcement officials...

A coalition of black Democratic political leaders from Prince George's County led by former county executive Wayne K. Curry endorsed Republican Michael S. Steele's bid for the U.S. Senate yesterday. The support from Curry, five County Council members and others barely a week before Election Day reflects their continued disappointment that the Democratic Party has no African American candidates at the top of the ticket and a sense that the county is being ignored, officials said. "They show us a pie, but we never get a slice," said Major F. Riddick Jr., a former aide to then-Gov. Parris N. Glendening...

When all is said and done, the biggest winner in California's election won't be the Democrats or the Republicans, but TV -- which is expected to rake in an estimated $300 million in political ad sales. And because of new research techniques that identify voters' political preferences by what they watch, targeting voters through the tube has become one of the weapons in campaigns' arsenals. "There is far more market research available about viewer habits,'' said Carol Dahmen, political marketing manager for Comcast. For example, when it comes to cable news, the best way to reach a conservative is on...

Washington -- It is an article of faith among many liberals that Democrats must advance a bold agenda if they win a majority in the House of Representatives next month. From expanded health care and scaling back President Bush's tax cuts to withholding money from the Pentagon's war budget and investigating high crimes and misdemeanors, there is enormous pent-up energy to accomplish what could not be done during 12 years in the minority. Yet as Democratic leaders, including would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, gear up for an increasingly plausible scenario, they face competing demands likely to temper their...

Saddam Hussein's defence team has drafted a letter to US President George W. Bush warning of dire consequences if an Iraqi court issues a verdict against the ousted Iraqi president for crimes against humanity. In a copy of the letter received by AFP in Jordan on Sunday, lead Iraqi lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi also urged Bush to set free Saddam and put an end to the trial which he described again as illegal and a farce. "We believe that it is necessary to stop this farcical trial and set free President Saddam Hussein, and all the prisoners, because this is...

During a whirlwind five-hour trip to bolster an endangered GOP congressman's reelection prospects, White House political guru Karl Rove last week delivered a fiery speech to 500 party activists, then shook every available hand and posed for snapshots like a rock star. He toured suburbs recently trashed by a snowstorm. He also found time to huddle with local strategists. But the most significant element of Rove's effort to help four-term Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds keep his job may have occurred behind closed doors, when the White House strategist met with a federal disaster relief official contemplating how to respond to...

Ok, well, actually, we can’t break into Rove’s head and we don’t know why he’s personally confident. Many speculate that the veneer of hope masks unalloyed fear. But here are seven reasons cited by people who also read “THE polls” and who are in regular commerce with Rove, RNC chairman Ken Mehlman and White House political director Sara Taylor. Let’s define our term, first. “Optimism” doesn’t mean that these Republicans are convinced that they’ll pick up seats. The White House knows that its majorities in both chambers will be reduced. Optimism also doesn’t imply that these Republicans are blind to...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 — A liberal gay rights group said Wednesday that one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation. A spokesman for the group, the Human Rights Campaign, said it first learned of its employee’s role this week and immediately fired him for misusing the group’s resources. The scandal surrounding Mr. Foley, a Florida Republican, has been a burdensome distraction for members of his party in the month before the midterm elections, and some Republicans...

As part of an ongoing voter education campaign, AARP today unveiled its "Don't Vote" initiative, which tells voters "Don't vote . . . until you know where the candidates stand on the issues." The campaign has its own Website where voters can select their respective state and receive information on state and national races, find their district, and register to vote. Additionally, visitors to http://www.dontvote.com can view the AARP Voters' Guide, which presents national, state, and local candidates' unedited responses on key issues. "Voters tell us a candidate's positions on issues are as important to them as their personal qualifications,"...

The utilization of Google Adwords and simultaneous, widespread embedded hyperlinks in order to drive as many voters as possible toward the most damning, non-partisan article written on the Republican candidate in seventy key US Senate and House races. The campaign will run from Tuesday, October 24th until Tuesday, November 7th.