two bushes, two wars and now what? plus thad cochran is trying to get african-americans to vote for him in the mississippi republican primary run-off but tea party supporters are using a jim crow-era law to challenge the right are of people to vote. democrats hope to turn red georgia blue by registering hundreds of uh thousands of african-americans. we ll see if it works in georgia could work somewhere else. finally, let me finish with the strong sense that we are headed back to war. it s coming. this is hardball, the place for politics. s you on your toes. you wouldn t have it any other way. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment s right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about
mississippi is not a family state. kasie, why is my friend haley barbour so tough for dock ran are who is 76? he ought to hang it up at some point. why is haley pushing so forward hard for him? there is loyalty to senator cochran in the state and basis in the argument that senator cochran delivered a lot for the state over the course of his tenure. that s the argument he s making as he tries to broaden his electorate and reach out to democrats or african-american voters and saying, hey, i delivered for mississippi. state senator chris mcdaniel said he may not have voted for hurricane katrina. he may cut defense. that explains why senator mccain was here. one of the fundamental things is people didn t think senator cochran could lose last time around. if you talk to republicans on the establishment said they are saying people woke up, realized senator cochran might be in danger.
thought they would have a straightforward time of pulling this off. the cochran campaign was saying three weeks ago they thought they were going to lose, that the run-off was the best case century owe they could have hoped for and the posture is different tonight. we ll see you can t make predictions until the voters have their say. at this point the ground has shifted some. what do you make of mccain coming down there? if you live in mississippi and you have an attitude about politics and you have been following it all your life, what do you care if john mccain at this point i don t think anybody will make up their mind. it s all turn out. the models are are getting the people we have identified as pro mcdaniel supporters to the polls. why is it so big for cochran? it s the reason we are in this fight. this is a fight about the k street hold. mississippi is not a family
candidate chris mcdaniel wins and causes even more problems for president obama. please commit to voting against tea party candidate chris mcdaniel next tuesday. well, tea party activists are countering with a so-called voter integrity project sending poll watchers to monitor the process and potentially challenge individual voter. they are citing a jim crow-era law from 1942 that states, quote, no person shall be eligible to participate in a primary election unless he intends to support the nominations made in the primary in which he participates. in other words, if you are voting republican in the primary you better plan to vote republican in the general. the mcdaniel supporters are saying any democrat who votes for cochran in the primary must, by law, intend to vote for the republican in november. any republican. but the tea party effort has got mississippi s attorney general on edge fearing racial profiling, he says, and intimidation tactics to supress
from contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angie s list. we found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angie s list. join today at angieslist.com it s not just voters in mississippi going to the polls tonight. it s primary day in five other states. one race drawing national interest is in new york s 13th district which includes harlem where 22-term, 44 years, charlie are rangel is facing a serious primary challenge today. in oklahoma there is a tight race to see who will be the republican no, ma aminee for th retiring tom coburn and colorado republicans are picking a nominee to run against john hickenlooper out there. we ll be right back.