last few years. he also represents a southern state where the electorate is particularly conservative and the tea party is particularly strong. alexander is being challenged in a gop primary by state representative joe carr, who after cantor lost this week blasted out a fund-raising e-mail with the message lamar, you re next. carr was on cnbc this week and elaborated on that. i think senator alexander has got a similar problem that leader cantor had in that he s out of touch with his republican base in tennessee. there s no recent reliable polling on this race. alexander s campaign did put out an internal poll earlier this year claiming the senator leads carr 62-17% but eric cantor s campaign claimed they were up by 34 points and you saw what happened there this week. the tennessee primary is on august 7th. lamar alexander s opponent says he should be very worried. is that right? we re going to ask michael collins, the washington correspondent with the knoxville new sentinel.