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Due to the number of external links related to U.S. congressional elections in 2006, the article has been subdivided. This article contains links for Articles & Commentary for October and November 2006.

Also see:

• Articles & Commentary for 2005 through September 2006
• 2006 Election Irregularities
• 110th United States Congress

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October

• Christopher Buckley, "Let’s quit while we’re behind," The Washington Monthly, October 2006.
• Andrew S. Ross, "The Republicans' perfect storm?" The Ross Report/San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2006.
• Cliff Schecter, "Republican Sexcapades: Meet The Real GOP," The Huffington Post, October 1, 2006.
• Lee Bowman, "Who knew what about Foley and when did they ignore it?" Capitol Hill Blue, October 2, 2006.
• Editorial: "Capitol Hill creepshow," New York Daily News, October 3, 2006. re Mark Foley
• "Woodward book, Foley fallout knocks Republican Party off message," Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), October 3, 2006.
• Editorial: "The Foley Matter," New York Times, October 3, 2006.
• Margery Eagan, "In the House, as in Church, perverts live under protection," Boston Herald, October 3, 2006.
• Liz Sidoti, "Foley Fallout Knocks GOP Off Message," Associated Press (Fox News), October 3, 2006.
• Evan Derkacz, "Foley, Gays and the Religious Right: Is This the Nail in the GOP Coffin?" AlterNet, October 3, 2006. re Religious Right
• Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei, "After Foley, New Fears For the GOP. Some Say Party Could Lose House and Senate," Washington Post, October 3, 2006.
• "TIME Poll: The Foley Sex Scandal Has Hurt G.O.P. Election Prospects. Two-thirds of those aware of the scandal believe Republican leaders attempted a cover-up, according to a new survey," TIME Magazine, October 5, 2006.
• "Internal Poll Suggests Hastert Could Devastate GOP," Fox News, October 5, 2006.
• Alan Cooperman, "GOP's Hold on Evangelicals Weakening. Party's Showing in Midterm Elections May Be Hurt as Polls Indicate Support Dropping in Base," Washington Post, October 6, 2006.
• Ellen Goodman, "Courtesy of GOP, Voters Finally Get 'It'," Boston Globe (Common Dreams), October 6, 2006.
• Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza, "GOP Officials Brace for Loss Of Seven to 30 House Seats," Washington Post, October 10, 2006.
• David S. Broder and Dan Balz, "Poll Shows Strong Shift Of Support to Democrats," Washington Post, October 10, 2006.
• Arianna Huffington, "Republicans are Whistling Past the Foley Graveyard," The Huffington Post, October 10, 2006.
• Jennifer Loven, "Bush Says Democrats Would Raise Taxes," Associated Press (Forbes), October 10, 2006: "President Bush portrayed Democrats on Tuesday as the party of big spending and high taxes, aiming to give increasingly endangered Republicans an edge in a midterm election debate dominated recently by congressional scandal and overseas crises."
• Massimo Calabresi, "The G.O.P.'s Firewall Strategy. With the Foley scandal increasing the likelihood of a Democratic win in the House, Republicans are turning their attention — and money — to the Senate," TIME Magazine, October 13, 2006.
• Holly Martins, "America's Dumbest Congressmen. Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill," Radar Online, October 13, 2006.
• Michael Abramowitz, "White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects. Self-Assurance of Bush, Rove and Others Is Not Shared by Many in the Party," Washington Post, October 15, 2006.
• Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei, "Parties shift funds as contests tighten. GOP abandons races deemed unwinnable," Washington Post (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), October 15, 2006.
• John Whitesides, "Doubts over Iraq drive a volatile U.S. campaign," Washington Post, October 15, 2006.
• Joe Sudbay, "Momentum: The expanding field in the House," AMERICAblog, October 16, 2006.
• Tim Dickinson, "On This Issue's Cover? The Worst Congress Ever," National Affairs Daily/Rolling Stone, October 16, 2006.
• John Farmer, "GOP Fears Ohio Democrats' Strength a Nationwide Omen," Newhouse News Service, October 17, 2006.
• Josh Gerstein, "Republican Group Chides Democrats With Abortion Ads. Aim Is To Win Minority Voters, But Democrats Cry Foul," New York Sun, October 17, 2006. re America's PAC
• Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg, "Tables Turned for the G.O.P. Over Iraq Issue," New York Times, October 18, 2006.
• Mark Murray, "Big Democratic wins likely on Election Day. NBC/WSJ poll: Public's opinion of GOP hits record low," NBC News, October 18, 2006.
• Rachel Martin, "Republicans Zig; Will Christian Conservatives Zag?" All Things Considered/NPR, October 18, 2006.
• Max Blumenthal, "Republican Ad Calls Black Women 'Ho's'," The Huffington Post, October 19, 2006.
• "Judge Orders Release of WH Logs Sought By 'Wash Post'," Associated Press (Editor & Publisher), October 19, 2006: "A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election season debate over lobbyists' White House access."
• Peter Slevin, "Moderates in Kansas Decide They're Not in GOP Anymore," Washington Post, October 19, 2006.
• "GOP urges GOP candidate to quit race," UPI, October 19, 2006. re GOP challenger Tan Nguyen and Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez
• Simon Hooper, "Is it time to hit 'mission abort' in Iraq?" CNN, October 19, 2006.
• Greg Grandin, "Still dancing to Ollie's tune," Asia Times, October 20, 2006. re Oliver North, Iran-Contra and a warning to Democrats.
• David D. Kirkpatrick, "Republican Woes Lead to Feuding by Conservatives," New York Times, October 20, 2006.
• John Aravosis, "Bush uses gay rights flag as backdrop for ABC interview," AMERICAblog, October 22, 2006.
• Steve Hendrix, "Fighting for The Spoils. Lawmaker and Rainmaker Rahm Emanuel Wants a Nov. 7 Victory For the Democrats So Bad He Can Almost Taste It. If Only He Had Time to Eat," Washington Post, October 22, 2006.
• "EXCLUSIVE: George Stephanopoulos' Full Interview With President Bush," ABC News, October 22, 2006.
• Nico Pitney, "Bush: 'We've Never Been Stay The Course'," Think Progress, October 22, 2006.
• John Whitesides, "Senate power 'hanging by a thread'," Reuters, October 22, 2006.
• "Ken Mehlman concedes that Republicans 'cut & Run' from Afghanistan and terrorists took over," Crooks and Liars, October 22, 2006.
• Joe Klein, "If You Break it, You Pay For It, Mr. President. Bush hits the campaign trail stumping for two troubled candidates just as Iraq and his Republican Party seem to be falling apart simultaneously," TIME Magazine, October 22, 2006.
• Michael Kranish, "GOP ad puts focus on terror. E-mailed pitch aims to energize party activists," Boston Globe, October 23, 2006.
• Tom Raum, "Analysis: Republicans Fear War Fallout," Associated Press (Washington Post), October 23, 2006.
• Maureen Dowd, "Running Against Themselves," Welcome to Pottersville Blog, October 24, 2006: "Things have become so dire for the Republicans that now even Bush is distancing himself from Bush. ... The president is cutting and running from the president."
• Rick Klein, "McCain hawkish, and lonely, on Iraq. Few GOP hopefuls support strategy," Boston Globe, October 24, 2006. re John McCain
• "Frist to GOP Hopefuls: Don't Stress Iraq. Sen. Frist says Republican candidates should turn their focus away from Iraq," Associated Press (CBS News), October 25, 2006. re Bill Frist
• "Iraq violence sweeps more U.S. personnel," UPI, October 25, 2006.
• Mark Benjamin, "U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover," Salon, October 25, 2006: "Disgusted with the leadership of the Iraq war, two retired generals say the GOP must go. Plus: More than 100 current military personnel join a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq -- now."
• "Stay the Course," Democratic National Committee ad (YouTube link opens immediately), October 25, 2006.
• Marty Kaplan, "W to US: Go Cheney Yourself," The Huffington Post, October 25, 2006.
• Jonathan Schell, "The Torture Election," The Nation, October 26, 2006 (posted); November 13, 2006 (issue).
• Daniel Schulman, "Tales of a Push Pollster," Mother Jones, October 26, 2006: "What’s in the Swift Boat crowd’s bag of last-minute tricks? Nonstop robo-calls, for starters. Meet one of the nation’s top GOP telemarketers." re push poll
• Russell Shaw, "The Real Reasons Rush Limbaugh Said What He Did," The Huffington Post, October 26, 2006. re Rush Limbaugh
• Billmon, "Road Kill," Whiskey Bar, October 26, 2006.
• "Rove Protégé Behind Racy Tennessee Ad. Controversial RNC Ad Against Harold Ford Jr. Produced By Rove Consultant," CBS News/Associated Press, October 26, 2006. re Karl Rove, Scott Howell, and Harold Ford
• Michael Grunwald, "The Year Of Playing Dirtier. Negative Ads Get Positively Surreal," Washington Post, October 27, 2006.
• Maureen Dowd, "Brothels, Sex Kittens, Pedophilia?" Welcome to Pottersville Blog, October 28, 2006.
• Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, "GOP at a loss? Karl Rove has an 11th-hour plan to win. He taps government resources to boost candidates in need," Los Angeles Times (posted at Newsday, reposted by The Raw Story), October 29, 2006.
• David Germain, "Two movies take shots at Bush," Associated Press (Worcester Telegram), October 29, 2006.
• "Cheney Warns Iraq Terrorists Trying to Sway U.S. Election," Fox News, October 30, 2006.
• "Following ABC's lead, NBC cast campaign 'dirty tricks' as bipartisan but cited only GOP example," Media Matters for America, October 30, 2006.
• Max Blumenthal, "Character Assassin," The Nation, October 30, 2006. re Scott Howell
• David Espo, "Republicans scale back spending on competitive House races in three states," Associated Press (Boston Globe), October 31, 2006.
• Michael Abromwitz, "Bush Says 'America Loses' Under Democrats. White House Talk Heats Up As Polls Show Tight Races," Washington Post, October 31, 2006.
• Andy Ostroy, "Chris Matthews Defends Kerry Against Sleazy Repug Attacks. We Say, if Anyone Owes the Soldiers an Apology, it's Bush," The Ostroy Report, October 31, 2006.
• John Cole, "This Is No Fun," Balloon Juice Blog, October 31, 2006.
• Molly Ivins, "GOP ineptitude and some advice for Dems," Creators Syndicate (CNN), October 31, 2006.

November

• Dan Balz, "Campaigner in Chief Has Limited Reach. An Unpopular President Avoids Many Key Races," Washington Post, November 1, 2006.
• Editorial: "Osama isn't running. GOP reliance on fear-mongering and terrorist finger-pointing as a campaign tactic is growing old," Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2006. re fear
• Ed Kilgore, "Where's the Outrage?" TPM Cafe, November 1, 2006: "Lost amidst the manufactured outrage over John Kerry's study-hard-or-go-to-Iraq line has been the genuine outrage that Americans ought to feel about the president's and vice president's coordinated message two days ago that essentially said a vote for Democrats is a vote for terrorism."
• William Rivers Pitt, "Blood in the Gutters," truthout (OpEdNews), November 1, 2006.
• "After President Meets Reporters, Sullivan -- Once a Bush Backer -- Now Suggests He May Have 'Lost His Mind'," Editor & Publisher, November 1, 2006.
• Jamie Holly, "Olbermann’s Special Comment: There is no line this President has not crossed — nor will not cross — to keep one political party, in power," Crooks and Liars, November 1, 2006. (WMV and QT formats; includes full transcript.)
• Keith Olbermann, "Bush owes troops an apology, not Kerry. Olbermann: Bush 'appearing to be stupid' about Kerry’s joke," MSNBC, November 1, 2006.
• "Broadcast networks all led with Kerry's 'botched joke,' entirely ignored Bush's statement that a Democratic victory means 'terrorists win and America loses'," Media Matters for America, November 1, 2006.
• "Did Boehner Make A Bungle?" The Hotline Blog/National Journal, November 1, 2006.
• News Release: "Reid: Boehner Blames the Military," U.S. Newswire, November 1, 2006.
• "New Direction," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad (posted on YouTube), November 1, 2006. (unofficial subtitle: "It's the War, Stupid")
• Talking Points: "Military Mismanagement," Center for American Progress Action Fund, November 1, 2006.
• "Kroll pulls security team out of Iraq. Kroll withdrew its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after four workers died in Iraq," Associate Press (NewYorkBusiness.com), November 1, 2006. re Kroll, Inc.
• David R. Baker, "Bechtel pulling out after 3 rough years of rebuilding work," San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 2006. re Bechtel
• Editorial: "The Great Divider," New York Times, November 2, 2006.
• John M. Broder, "Bush Works to Solidify Base With a Defense of Rumsfeld," New York Times, November 2, 2006. Bush appeared on Rush Limbaugh show.
• Sidney Blumenthal, "To stay the wrong course. Karl Rove's short-term political ploys have undermined long-term Republican possibilities," comment is free .../The Guardian (UK), November 2, 2006: "In Bush's second term Rove attempted to force privatisation of social security, but Bush's plan did not receive a single committee hearing in the Congress. Hurricane Katrina exposed the corrupt political swamp of his government. And Iraq corroded the thin mandate he had left." re Karl Rove
• Karen E. Crummy and Kevin Simpson, "Haggard sex allegations could shape votes, political observers say. But which side of the Colorado debate on gay marriage might benefit is anyone's guess," Denver Post, November 3, 2006. re Ted Haggard
• "Top election falsehoods, myths, and talking points," Media Matters for America, November 3, 2006.
• Robert Parry, "Bush Will Say Anything," consortiumnews.com, November 4, 2006.
• "Cook's Last Forecast," Taegan Goddert's Political Wire, November 4, 2006.
• Charles Babington and Jonathan Weisman, "Anxious GOP Focuses on Not Losing Senate. Tight Races in Va., Mo. and Tenn. Seen as Crucial; House Outlook Remains Grim," Washington Post, November 4, 2006.
• Adam Nagourney and Robin Toner, "G.O.P. Glum as It Struggles to Hold Congress," New York Times, November 4, 2006.
• Dan Balz and David S. Broder, "Democrats, on the Offensive, Could Gain Both Houses," Washington Post, November 5, 2006.
• Frank James, "Will Saddam death warrant give GOP life?" The Swamp Blog/Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2006. re Bush administration approval ratings
• Susan Haigh, "Recount gives Courtney win in 2nd District," Associated Press (Boston Globe), November 14, 2006.