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More explicable how he would find himself in the middle of this. i think there is a question, of course, where that legal case is going because when you look at this, one of the statutes that they're talking about bringing on the underlying case, there's a lot of questions as to whether this thing will stand up in court. some of the lawyers have already asked whether a misdemeanor ought to have been charged and not i an felony. >> legally speaking, it's an open primary, jeffrey. so anyone can vote but he's arguing that if you intend on voting for a democrat, you really shouldn't vote in the re...

Will -- what has happened last night in many is miss will be the sort of thing that every political operative in mississippi, he was old enough to have been alive when this happened, will define themselves on whether they were a cochran man or a mcdaniel man. he's essentially saying this will change the party forever. the question, though, is, if he's right, and you can extrapolate from this. what is the thing that happens in the tea party, in the conservative movement that wouldn't have happened without this betrayal. >> i'm looking at the near term future, tennessee and kansas. these are the...

In mississippi, open primary, there's no party registration in mississippi. anybody can come in and vote, huge, statistically the largest proportionally african-american population of any state in the country. all of these voters who are on the sidelines, the cochran people are able to tap into, galvanize, get them to vote. where else in the country can a republican who's under attack from the tea party, have that at his disposal to go out and beat the tea party. take a close primary in another state, and have the grassroots all upset. look what they just did to us in mississippi. they think t...

Observer about how this works. in 30 years, he said this will -- what has happened last night in many is miss will be the sort of thing that every political operative in mississippi, he was old enough to have been alive when this happened, will define themselves on whether they were a cochran man or a mcdaniel man. he's essentially saying this will change the party forever. the question, though, is, if he's right, and you can extrapolate from this. what is the thing that happens in the tea party, in the conservative movement that wouldn't have happened without this betrayal. >> i'm looking at ...

Will the efforts to increase participation in the primary runoff, primary, include more african-americans? that is something we would like to see. i have not seen a lot of evidence of that. i've seen a lot of efforts to reach out. >> right. >> i've seen a lot of efforts to respond to those efforts. >> that's going to be really fascinating question to look into once we get the exit polling or returns tomorrow. derrick johnson from the naacp of mississippi. thank you. >> thank you. coming up, what's the biggest change ever to the "national geographic" atlas to the world besides the breakup of ...