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>> yeah. the democrats could say look, this tea party candidate has a real chance of losing if in fact the african american vote can be gotten to the polls in november. and i'm sure the democrats would start investing some money in the state to see if they could potentially do that. but let me also add to dana's reporting which is there has already been so much money invested in this race. the chamber of commerce is playing in a big way for thad cochran, and a conservative group like club for growth is playing on the other side of the ledger here. so this is a state that has seen a lot of mone...

Campaign commercial for thad cochran. obviously, i think he has helped thad cochran. 92% of the vote is in and cochran is ahead 51% to 49%. dana, quickly. i think that brett favre endorsement helped. >> it certainly could have. not only was brett favre sort of a native son, somebody who made good, he came back. he has actually been teaching high school here in mississippi in hattiesburg. and school and school funding has been one of the issues in this race, the idea that chris mcdaniel apparently said that there is no place for federal funding of schools here in mississippi where a quarter of ...

From mississippi. 49%, chris mcdaniel. only 4,000 votes, don, separate these two candidates right now. 5% of the votes still outstanding right now. you know, dana bash, she is in jackson, mississippi joining us. dana, you were reporting all day if in fact thad cochran manages to eek out a victory over chris mcdaniel, the tea party favorite, maybe he'll be able to thank the african american community in mississippi. almost all of them democrats for going out and voting in this open primary contest for thad cochran. >> that's right. we saw it ourselves. i talked to many african american democrat...

So hickenlooper will have a fight on his hands. you know, one thing, wolf, just to go back to the cochran race for a minute, which is so interesting to see. because i think it's become a proxy battle for what is going on inside the republican party. and if you just look at the surrogates who have gone to that state. dana knows this better than anyone. john mccain has gone there campaigning for thad cochran, talking about the way, you know, the military money that is being spent in the state, for example. and then you've got sarah palin, his former running mate out there for mcdaniel. so mccain...

The country, oklahoma, colorado, new york. but none with as much national importance as mississippi, right? >> mississippi is huge tonight, and it's a real nail-biter. let's put it up on the screen right now. you can see with about what, 80% of the vote now in, 80%, the republican establishment, the long-term senator, thad cochran with 51%. chris mcdaniel with 49%. only about 6,269 votes you see right there separating these two, these two candidates. the tea party favorite chris mcdaniel. thad cochran, the long-term six-term republican senator from mississippi. let's bring in dana bash. she is...