the mississippi mud was expected to fly today. we had pro-mcdaniel tea party backed poll watchers planning to man the polls. the local naacp chapter feared that would lead to voter intimidation and suppression. what have you seen there on the ground? well, poll workers here at this polling station in a neighborhood center in hattiesburg tell me they have not seen any mcdaniel poll watchers. maybe that s not surprising because there haven t been many african-american voters here. really, the focus of the mcdaniel campaign is on democrats who the cochran campaign is trying to turn out under mississippi s open primary laws, any democrat or independent, so long as they didn t vote in the democratic primary on june the 3rd, is eligible to vote in this race. cochran allies don t expect a huge number of democrats or african-american democrats. and in mississippi, which is totally racially polarized by party, most democrats are