Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R), looking at potential reelection defeat next month, blames “desperate” “left and liberal media” for crafting a “narrative” against him before his policies have a chance to work.
Don’t look now. But the open South Dakota senate suddenly looks up for grabs.
There’s remarkable news out of Spain today about the nurse who was part of the team treating a Spanish priest who later died of Ebola and has now come down with Ebola herself. Teresa Romero Ramos’s case is the first apparent case of Ebola transmission in Europe. The World Health Organization is saying, not surprisingly, that we should expect more cases in Europe. But there’s a lot of news suggesting Spanish authorities, or at least the doctors at her facility, were fairly casual about monitoring the members of their team for signs of contagion.
Man open carrying his new gun has his gun stolen at gun point.
It’s day two of our daily week day count-down of the most salient and noteworthy polls of the last 24 hours. As I said yesterday, if you want to be alerted the moment a poll is released in a race you’re following, download our PollTracker Mobile app (available on iOS and Android.) So to the polls. Not much dramatic today on the most watched Senate races. We do have another poll from the Kansas Senate race though and it seems to confirm that incumbent Senator Pat Roberts is likely to lose to Greg Orman, the independent candidate who people on both sides are assuming would caucus with the Dems.
Justice Anthony Kennedy has for the moment halted gay marriages in Idaho.
Meanwhile, some confusion over what exactly has happened in South Carolina. A state judge has apparently begun accepting applications for same sex-marriage licenses in defiance of that state’s ban, but contrary to some reports has not actually issued any licenses yet. The clerk in South Carolina tells TPM there is a mandatory 24-hour waiting period for all marriage licenses. The presumption is licenses will issue once the 24 hours expires, unless further legal maneuvering puts a halt to it.
GOP far right girds loins, prepares for long twilight dog-whistling struggle against the scourge of gay marriage. Ed Kilgore has the details.
An American who has lived and worked in Liberia on why we should stop freaking out about ebola.
At traffic stop, Indiana state trooper asks motorist: Do you accept Jesus Christ as your savior?
Senate candidate says ISIL is plotting with Mexican drug cartels to attack Arkansas.