well, i'm glad that you remember it. >> reporter: even on the phone, everyone remembers edwin edward. did that gentleman say that you helped him in 1980? >> yes. >> reporter: do you recall? >> no, but he was very grateful. >> reporter: and they are spending time catching up with voters who feel like old friends. edwards who many people in louisiana still call the governor and now has a 1-year-old son was first elected to congress 50 years ago. >> a lady asked me the the other day, you are 87 years old and retire and why don't you do what you feel like doing, and i said, l lady, that is what i feel like doing, running for congress. >> reporter: and he is not worried about the 8 1/2 years behind bars. >> i did nothing wrong and it had nothing to do with the politics, and nothing to do with my role as governor. >> reporter: but the justice system disagreed, but as we balk we walk around baton rouge, people agreed. >> he would be an excellent congressman. >> reporter: he has given american politics some of the most famous quotes like this one from the 1983 gubernatorial race. this is the

well, i'm glad that you remember it. >> reporter: even on the phone, everyone remembers edwin edwardthat gentleman say that you helped him in 1980? >> yes. >> reporter: do you recall? >> no, but he was very grateful. >> reporter: and they are spending time catching up with voters who feel like old friends. edwards who many people in louisiana still call the governor and now has a 1-year-old son was first elected to congress 50 years ago. >> a lady asked me the the other day, you are 87 years old and retire and why don't you do what you feel like doing, and i said, l lady, that is what i feel like doing, running for congress. >> reporter: and he is not worried about the 8 1/2 years behind bars. >> i did nothing wrong and it had nothing to do with the politics, and nothing to do with my role as governor. >> reporter: but the justice system disagreed, but as we balk we walk around baton rouge, people agreed. >> he would be an excellent congressman. >> reporter: he has given american politics some of the most famous quotes like this one from the 1983 gubernatorial race. this is the most

. >> edwin edwards spent 16 years as governor of louisiana before spending eight and a half years inracketeering. he is seeking political redemption this fall. >> get aerobic exercise. >> there is 76-year-old larry presler out for a morning jog and stunning the political world as he runs in a race to bin back the south dakota senate seat he lost in 1996. >> i have my seniority. i can be a powerful senator. >> one person isn't so thrilled about the prospects of a comeback, his wife. >> she's not excited about coming back to washington. >> hi, everybody. >> there's the legendary former six-term mayor budly cianci looking to return after a prison stint of five years. >> i did my time in the system that we have in america. you get found guilty, you pay the price. i have proclaimed my innocence. i still do. the fact is i did it like a man. >> released in 2007 from what he calls the federal gated community, the 73-year-old man wants his old job back. holding court on this night at a drag bingo game. why dive back in? >> we have had over a decade of decline in the city. number one. i looked

edwin edwards famed former governor of louisiana now running for congress.e mayor of providence spent some time in the federal lock up. running again. larry pressler after almost 20 years out of office is running for his seat in south dakota. >> has pressler been to jail >> no. >> why are we profiling him snoom's a political come back. >> i get that theme. >> this 87-year-old man is working the phones for votes. >> i'm a politician that knows how to deliver on his promises. i'm governor edwards. >> edwards as in edwin edwards, congressat candidate who spent 16 years as governor of louisiana. before spending 8 1/2 years in prison for racketeering. he's one of a crop of candidates seeking political redemption this fall. there's 76-year-old larry pressler out for a morning jog and stunning the political world as he runs neck and neck in a race to win back the south dakota senate seat he lost in 1996. >> i have my seniority. i can be a powerful senator for south dakota. >> one person is not so thrilled about the prospects of a come back. his wife. >> she's not e

ab, edwin edwards he is the man for the democratic party and louisiana going after that congressionalt do you make of his kd? >> well i think he's running as a character. and i think that he will get a lot of local support because he's a long-standing character in that state. he's very beloved. that's probably the extent of it. i don't know if he's going to win over young people who have never heard of him, but i think he deserves credit for trying. i heard a wonderful interview with him recently about how he thought this was the right -- he had one more calling and this is what he had to do. lou: and '87-year-old sixth longest serving governor. dana, you get the last word on this. >> god bless america, lou. you know god bless america. this is why i like politics. you never know exactly what you'll get with it. lou: thanks a lot. amen is all we can say to that. our quotation of the evening this one for former secretary treasury chief of staff chairman and ceo of merrill lynch. doonld, and he said and i was thinking of mr. panetta, you got to give loyalty down if you want loyalty up. o

louisiana is featured in the and edwin edwards.e is running for the house of representatives and served jail time for corruption. he is predicting that mary landrieu is done in the state of louisiana. we will go to rudy in ontario, california. caller: good morning. good morning, c-span. i live in california. i believe that california has the best way of voting. we have early voting. we have all the voting rights. i feel bad about my fellow citizens in all of those republican governed states. i was trying to tell my son about elections, civics, which we both learned in school. , it wasot to the voters impossible for me to tell him that the republicans are not cheating. because that is exactly what they are doing. man,ey expect me, a grown to believe what they are saying, you have a senator from texas saying that they wanted to be like jesse helms. they wanted a congress that would be filled with jesse helms. to people not know who jesse helms was? politico this morning. warren versus brown in new hampshire. the democrat is heading t