When it comes to the polls and the 2006 midterm elections, the media has focused on the impending Civil War in Iraq. But for business owners and entrepreneurs, the election is about taxes and the debilitating issue of rising health care costs.

Those factors are expected to send business owners to the polls in record numbers. In a recent survey of business folks by Well Fargo Gallup, 89 percent indicated they would be heading to the turnstiles to cast their ballots. Ninety-one percent of those owning their own business indicated they would be casting their votes come Tuesday.

Other issues that rose to the top of the financial concerns list included the recent spike in energy prices, taxes in general including business taxes, and the general economic malaise related to the war. While many of the major party political organizations spoke of get-out-the-vote operations for Democrats or Republicans, Sharon Wolff-Sussin, the political director of the National Federation of Independent Business indicated that a group of field volunteers would be making similar door-to-door approaches to focus on a get-out-the-vote message for candidates that support “pro-small business” initiatives.

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