Colbert: “You can’t pray away your gay. Well, you can’t gay away my pray. For Christians like me this is a civil rights issue in that I don’t like gay people are getting civil rights.” Watch.
Day three of our 2014 election countdown. 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.)
The last twenty four hours have seen a raft of polls showing a strong position for Republican senate candidates almost across the board.
We’re trying to put together the basic details of what happened. But quick overview: in the city of St Louis tonight, a member of the St Louis Metropolitan Police shot and killed an 18 year old man, Vonderrick Myers Jr., after an encounter, the nature of which remains in dispute.
Police say the dead man had a gun and fired at the officer; witnesses and family members dispute that.
The shooting took place near the Missouri Botanical Gardens. (Here’s the early report from the Post-Dispatch.)
NBC apparently pursued Jon Stewart take over Meet the Press.
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.