in return from senator cochran whether it's food stamp funding and programs that help poor blacks in mississippi or the voting rights act. congressman fudge said, absolutely, we have expectations. representative hank johnson said the votes were delivered. i hope he'll be responsive to voters that pushed him over the top. emmanuel cleaver said i hope he comes to the realization that african-americans are the reason are i have this final six year ares so i will try to be more responsible than i have been. another african-american leader looking for more support from senator cochran is naacp president derek johnson. alex burns is a senior reporter for politico. two questions i want to establish for people. last week in the run-off in mississippi, did you vote? did you support either of the republican candidates? >> no. i did not vote. i voted in the democratic primary election so i could not vote in the run are-off election.