NATIONAL REFERENDUM...

Poll: Voters Say Iraq, Economy, Terrorism Would Go In Right Direction With Dem Congress…Conservative Columnist Novak: Dems May Beat “An Arrogant And Politically Tin-Eared Republican Establishment”…Sen. Schumer: “Every Vote Cast For A Democrat On Tuesday Is For A New, Smarter Iraq Policy”…Bill Clinton: “They Can’t Run Anything Right”…

The New York Times John M. Broder And Jim Rutenberg November 6, 2006 11:43 PM

Exhausted candidates across the country delivered their final appeals on Monday, closing a campaign that will determine the balance of power in Washington for the next two years and render a judgment about President Bush and the war in Iraq...

..."We've always wanted this to be a national referendum," said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, "and it's helping us from one end of the country to the other."

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