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I want you to explain it to people, obviously cochran and mcdaniel are the two we know about in the race but there's a third candidate and there's a possibility that no one gets the 50% they need and we're talking about this race in three weeks' time. explain. >> reporter: exactly. 50% is a threshold for this race to win. if they don't they'll have three more weeks and will be very discouraging to voters here. people here i've talked to are very eager to see this race end so three weeks more will not be desired with mississippi voters, particularly since you've had a flood of outside money her...

State senator mcdaniel. cochran is a six-time senator. perhaps most interesting conservative rating is 88% making him among one of the more right leaning of the u.s. senate and facing a tough challenge from the tea party backed mcdaniel. can the tea party finally score a big victory in 2014 or will the brand name establishment republican pull out a win. let's bring it to jake sherman who covers politics for politico and whose bio says he listens to the grateful dead and fish. that is a problem for another day. >> obviously cochran has been in washington for a long time. that kind of is the iss...