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SHOW: All Things Considered 8:00 PM EST
October 24, 2006 Tuesday

HEADLINE: Rove Sees No GOP Fall in the 2006 Election
ANCHORS: ROBERT SIEGEL

SIEGEL: We're in the home stretch, though, and many would consider you on the optimistic end of realism about -
Mr. ROVE: Not that you would be exhibiting a bias or a (unintelligible). I like that. You're just making a comment.
SIEGEL: I'm looking at all the same polls that you're looking at every day.
Mr. ROVE: No, you're not. No, you're not.
SIEGEL: No, I'm not.
Mr. ROVE: No, you're not. You're not. I'm looking at 68 polls a week. You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk about attitudes nationally but that do not impact the outcome of -
SIEGEL: I'm looking at main races between - certainly Senate races.
Mr. ROVE: Well, like the poll today showing that Corker's ahead in Tennessee, or the poll showing that Allen is pulling away in the Virginia Senate race.
SIEGEL: Leading Webb in Virginia, yeah.
Mr. ROVE: Exactly.
SIEGEL: But you've seen the DeWine race and the Santorum race - I don't want to have you call races.
Mr. ROVE: Yeah, I'm looking at all these, Robert, and adding them up, and I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math, I'm entitled to the math.