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Bush Campaigns to Rally the Faithful for Election Day

By Don Gonyea

Published November 3, 2006 at 3:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

President Bush will spend the final few days of this campaign season on the trail.

He's encouraging voter turnout among the party faithful in Republican strongholds, including Georgia, Texas and Montana.

Bush is is scheduled to continue stumping for GOP candidates, without returning to the White House, until election day.

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Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.