Dick Cheney Takes Questions

Nov. 3, 2006 — -- This afternoon in Colorado, Vice President Dick Cheney sits for an exclusive interview with ABC News Chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos.

In their first one-on-one, Stephanopoulos will press Cheney on the souring national mood over the war in Iraq, Sen. John Kerry's recent controversial comments, and whether the Bush administration expects to find itself, for the first time in six years, out of power in either the House or Senate or both.

In three successive elections, the vice president has been a potent weapon in President Bush's campaign arsenal.

Since taking office, Cheney has hardly ever been off the campaign trail. He raised nearly $40 million at 106 events by 2002, stumping for the president's -- and his own -- re-election in 2004. He has taken in more than $40 million at 116 events during this campaign season.

Cheney's itinerary reads like a military operation, targeting the reddest of red states: Idaho, Montana, Kansas, and his native Wyoming are just some of the fundraising stops between the frequent air base troop rallies and National Guard speeches that have recently filled Cheney's schedule.

This Friday, with less than a week to go in the 2006 campaign, is no different. Cheney takes the stage at Butts Army Airfield in Fort Carson to rally the troops before raising last-minute funds at a Colorado victory rally.

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Cheney, whose favorability rating routinely hovers in the low 20s, may not be universally popular throughout the nation, but in such places, Cheney rallies the party faithful, a formula that has led Republicans to congressional gains in each of the last three elections.

Stephanopoulos intends to press Cheney on the role Iraq may play in next week's election.

In the most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, 57 percent of Americans said that the war was not worth fighting.

That included not only 78 percent of Democrats but 64 percent of independents and 40 percent of conservatives. Also in that poll, President Bush's job approval rating dropped to 37 percent, the second-lowest mark of his presidency.