3 on North Korea or How Repiglikkans intend to exploit the situation they allowed in North Korea. Maybe Bush let this happen too.

Bush to hold news conference
Effort comes amid N. Korea tensions , House scandal and a new Iraq study
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Weeks before midterm elections across the country, Bush and the Republican Party are facing dismal approval ratings and for the first time since 2001, a Newsweek poll shows that more Americans — 53 percent — trust Democrats or moral values and the war on terror.
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WASHINGTON -- As new polls showed Democrats taking advantage of a wave of hostile sentiment over the Iraq war and the Mark Foley sex scandal, some Republicans were clinging to the hope that news of the North Korean nuclear test might bring some supporters back to them.

With four weeks to go before U.S. midterm congressional elections, Democrats seem increasingly likely to regain control of the 435-seat House of Representatives for the first time in a decade and their chances of winning a majority in the Senate are not as far-fetched as they seemed only a few weeks ago.

According to a Gallup Poll published yesterday by USA Today, 59 per cent of likely voters said they would vote Democrat in their home congressional districts if an election were held today, against 36 per cent for the Republicans.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the United States did not intend to invade or attack North Korea, but she warned the North’s leaders that they now risked sanctions “unlike anything that they have faced before.”