to be precleared. case in point for why this state needs to be covered by the voting rights act and why congress needs to act on the amendment. section 4 being gutted does not bode black mississippi voters well at all. jamelle, you were writing about cochrane s attempt to reach out to african-american voter. you wrote, and i m quoting you, if there was a time to support cochran, now is it. if i were voting in mississippi, i would swallow my partisanship and cast a ballot for cochrane. eñ givenen the circumstances he s probably the bestñr÷?ñ one. do you see cochranes ises as the lesser of two evils? öjañyes. the difference between cochrane and mcdonnell, cochrane isn t as rigidly ideological. mcdaniel is against all government, all spending. anything that could come to the federal government. cochrane is conservative but is