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Aggressive cochran effort to win his republican runoff with the help of democratic voters allowed in mississippi. on the coast where cochran brought federal dollars for defense contractors in aid after katrina and by enlisting african-american organizers by jackie bland who handed out 5,000 flyers. >> i'm a democrat, but i'm supporting thad cochran. that kind of outreach worked. we saw it first hand at this voting precinct. >> did you have people in your community coming up to you and saying we've got to get out and vote for senator cochran? >> yes, they did. >> reporter: what was their argume...

Washington the other day about that. he is well aware of what's happening in north carolina. i encouraged eric holder to move some of the attorneys from the section 5 unit over to the section 2 unit so we can litigate more of these cases. north carolina is right for this type of case. there is no question we could successfully prove in north carolina intentional discrimination as well as discriminatory impact. we've got to move in north carolina, show republicans you just don't reverse 30 years of progress with the stroke of a pen. >> when these county election boards are making the kind of de...

I encouraged eric holder to move some of the attorneys from the section 5 unit over to the section 2 unit so we can litigate more of these cases. north carolina is right for this type of case. there is no question we could successfully prove in north carolina intentional discrimination as well as discriminatory impact. we've got to move in north carolina, show republicans you just don't reverse 30 years of progress with the stroke of a pen. >> when these county election boards are making the kind of decisions they are, closing the appalachian state voting precinct and combining those precincts...

I still remember picking up my mom's voting precinct. i've been in touch with the governor's office and people on the ground. i don't want to get ahead of the official numbers but obviously it's very, very bad. you know, this is our fourth one of these things in 15 years. '98, '99, 2003, and now this. this one much worse than '99 in terms of the loss of life itself and we have to wait to give the men and women and first responders and sadly we are pretty good at this. our police and firefighters are first rate at this. you saw that in the oklahoma city bombing. and i appreciate the president

Of these states are without power and if you want to go to your voting precinct, you will not be able to. there is a paper ballot and you can write down your voting preference and they count it by hand and makings for a long election night n new york, they are trying to extend voting in the next day so people will have more time to do that. new york is a sacred blue state but could affect the delay and a number of congressional races and compel other states to start wanting to do the same thing. to extend a voting deadline, is something that would be for everybody. it is a federal act, but ind...