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HEADS UP . . .

I'm 99.9% certain that Bill O'Reilly plans to interview the President tomorrow and then air the results of the interview on his show over a three-night period -- Monday (10/16), Tuesday (10/17), and Wednesday (10/18)!

Bill O'Reilly, 8 PM EDT on the FoxNews Channel

MUST READS . . .

IF ALL OF OUR REPUBLICAN REPS AND SENATORS HAD THE ATTITUDE OF REPRESENTATIVE KLINE (a former Marine), WE WOULDN'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS:

KLINE SIDES WITH BUSH — AND HE'S NOT APOLOGIZING
Representative has a passion for defense and has aggressively defended his House seat
BY Meggen Lindsay
Pioneer Press

You won't hear U.S. Rep. John Kline distancing himself from President Bush or the Iraq war this campaign season.

Never mind the fast-dwindling support for both or the fact that his opponent has hammered his stance for some 15 months. The former Marine and two-term House member knows who he is and what he stands for.

"I think it's wrong to say that because the president's approval ratings are down, I'd better distance myself from him," Kline, 59, said. "No, not if you think he has been doing a good job and is a man of courage and principle and has been acting on that. You shouldn't run from him."

You can read the entire article at
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/15756761.htm?source=rss&channel=twincities_local

Sunday, October 15, 2006
SETTLE-UP SUNDAY
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 9:37 AM

Didn't give yesterday because you forgot? Slipped your mind?

You don't care about the conduct of the war or the future of the Supreme Court?

The president and Rove are confident, and it puzzles the MSMers who read their own copy.

Here's a clue: The Minneapolis Star Tribune's regular descent into polling madness shows Tim Pawlenty far behind his challenger in a result which causes Gopher State voters to guffaw at the Strib's transparent agenda journalism.

In short, many pollsters either tweak the results or don't know how to poll in the communications world in which we now live. The Strib's "polls" are the worst of the lot --documented often by Powerline's Scott Johnson-- but there are bunches of bad ones out there.

So while it matters to take in all data, trust the party pros to know where to spend and follow their lead, which will take you to first to these four:

Burns for Senate.

DeWine for Senate.

Santorum for Senate.

Talent for Senate.

These are federal races with limits which is why your contributions matter here more than in a state race with different rules.

So quiet your conscience and dig deep for the final three weeks.

[Go to the following website so that you can use the 'hot' links included in this commentary!]
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/

HOW TRUSTWORTHY ARE THE POLLS THIS YEAR? (UPDATED)
10/13 12:34 PM

So – in Missouri, take your choice – the Rasmussen poll that has Republican Jim Talent up by 1, or the SurveyUSA poll that has Democrat Claire McCaskill up by 9.

Two polls, conducted by two respected organizations around the same time, two starkly different results. (The SurveyUSA poll shows a 25 point swing among independents from Talent to McCaskill in the span of a month.)

It's possible that McCaskill is up by a few at this moment, and the two polls represent either side of the margin of error. But what are the odds of Survey USA's sample giving McCaskill her best possible positioning, and what are the odds of Rasmussen giving Talent his best possible position?

As I’ve mentioned from time to time, I have a theory that the traditional system of telephone polling is broken. I suspect that caller ID, cell-phone only homes, the general public’s busier lifestyle (who has time to spend a half hour answering a pollster’s questions?), suspicion of pollsters and the media, the spread of push-polling and a host of other factors have come together to make it nearly impossible to get a good representative sample.

(This, of course, presumes all the polls we read are actually conducted. As we saw, one pollster recently pled guilty to making up results.)

Read the rest of this EXCELLENT article at
http://tks.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGY2ZTcwYjgzODRlNjY1ZWMwMDFiZWU2NWJjMWY5MWI=