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Large crowd gathered for Monday vigil at site of Daunte Wright's shooting by police a day earlier.

comments This post originally appeared on Grist. Grist is a nonprofit news agency working toward a planet that doesn't burn and a future that doesn't suck. Sign up to receive Grist's top stories in your inbox. Bobby Wright says the seed of the idea was planted about a year and a half ago when he and his dad, Bob, were out on his grandparents' ranch in Carter County, Oklahoma. Wright's grandfather, Troy Lewellen, once grew pecans and raised cattle on the ranch, but at 83, he was retired and wanted to tie up any loose ends in his affairs. And sitting on his property, about a quarter of a mile f...

build a fire wall could hinge on african-american turnout. we'll map out the strategy and discuss the debate in the party. >> on the campaign trail, a more urgent trail heading into the final two weeks. sarah palin was in nevada to kick off a tea party bus tour. she suggested the republican resurgent will not stop this november. >> we don't work for you anymore, nancy pelosi. you're fired. and mr. obama and your czars, you're next because now we can see 2012 from our house. >> speaker pelosi made a rare appearance in pittsburgh pricking she'll still hold the speaker's gavel in januar...

>> if enough effort was made, there was a collected effort made in 1986 called operation big vote and black voters turned out in - let me say significant numbers. that was record turn-out for black voters in a midterm collection. that is only 25 point 3 percent. so in midterm elections the highest turn-out african-american voters had was 45.4 percent. often times midterm elections have very low touch turn-out r. what happened in 1986, this is the most important thing. it's not black turn out in a solutionary sense but what the gap is between black and white turn out. when there's li...

services section and free speech advocates is fighting back. >> julie: midterm elections are drawing near and many polls show democrats stumbling to the finish line. when it comes to politics, two months can be a very long time. so both democrats and republicans are courting public opinion hard in the leadup to november. steve is live in washington with more. >> reporter: couple of polls not looking too great for democrats. let's take a look at the generic poll, republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in the weekly tracking of congressional voting. this ten-point lead ...