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Among registered Democrats polled, 52% say they’re more enthusiastic about voting than usual, compared with just 39% of Republicans. Thirty-seven percent of Republican respondents are less enthusiastic than usual, while only 29% of Democrats feel that way. Another challenge facing the G.O.P. is a stark drop-off in support among what is usually a core constituency: white evangelical Christians. According to TIME’s poll, only 54% of people in this group favor Republican candidates, with 5% undecided. Thirty-eight percent of white evangelicals polled say they’ll support Democrats. In 2004, exit polls indicated that 78% of this constituency voted for Bush. While the G.O.P. won out in the poll by seven points (42-35) as the party perceived as best equipped to protect moral values, a matter especially important to this group, the party’s standing among evangelicals may have been hurt by recent Congressional scandals, which have tarnished the G.O.P. especially. Forty-one percent of registered voters said Congressional scandals were extremely or very important as voting issues this campaign. A third factor running against the G.O.P. is an improvement in men’s attitudes towards the Democrats. Males provided much of the Bush victory margin in 2004: the President took 55% of the male vote while John Kerry won 44%, according to exit polls. For the 2006 midterms, the TIME poll suggests men are almost evenly split, with 43% supporting Republican candidates and 47% Democrats. Women in the TIME poll support Democratic candidates by a lopsided 59% to 33% for Republicans. In 2004, Kerry had just a three-point edge among females. The poll indicated that the Iraq war is the most important voting issue among nine TIME tested. Thirty-five percent of registered voters labeled the war an extremely important issue and 44% called it a very important issue in deciding which Congressional candidate to support. A majority of Americans, according to this poll — 53% in both cases — say the war was a mistake in the first place and that the U.S. is losing it. Democrats held a slim five-point lead (44%-39%) on which party would do a better job of dealing with the war. The economy came in second as a voting issue, with 29% of registered voters ranking it extremely important and 50% very important. Terrorism was a close third, with 77% of those surveyed saying it was extremely or very important. Here, Republicans held their usual advantage. Forty-five percent of registered voters said Republicans would handle terrorism better than Democrats (35%). Though Republican candidates and officials on the stump have portrayed Democrats as likely to raise taxes, the poll found that 45% of registered voters thought the opposition party would do a better job dealing with taxes than the G.O.P., which got 40% on that score. Tax policy was an extremely or very important voting issue to 70% of respondents. On managing government spending, 46% of registered voters said Democrats were to be preferred over Republicans, who got the nod of 31% of those surveyed. Overall, Democrats came out ahead in five of the seven areas TIME polled. On standing up to lobbyists and special interests they prevailed 41% to 23% and on understanding the needs of people like yourself they led 53% to 30%. President Bush’s performance is a voting issue and is likely a factor in energizing Democrats on the eve of the election. Twenty-three percent of those polled said it was an extremely important element in their decision making and another 35% said it was very important. Fully two thirds (66%) of those who support Democratic candidates cite Bush’s performance as a major factor in their vote, compared to 52% of those backing Republicans. Bush’s approval rating remained in the doldrums, at 37% — essentially unchanged from our last poll, Oct.3 (36%) and the one before that, Aug.22 (38%). Sixty-five percent of those surveyed say they disapprove of the President’s handling of the war; 31% approve. Finally, in an undercurrent of unease that has been simmering since the 2000 vote-counting debacle in Florida, a large number of voters — 43% — say they’re very concerned that votes won’t be counted accurately, and another 25% say they’re somewhat concerned. _This TIME magazine poll was conducted by telephone November 1-3, 2006 among a national random sample of 1203 adults, including 1030 registered voters, age 18 and older throughout America._ _The margin of error for the entire sample is approximately +/- 3 percentage points. The margin of error is higher for subgroups. Surveys are subject to other error sources as well, including sampling coverage error, recording error, and respondent error._ _The Poll’s partisan breakdown is as follows:_ _29% Democrat 26% Republican 33% Independent_ _Schulman, Ronca, & Bucuvalas (SRBI) Public Affairs designed the survey and conducted all interviewing. 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