you've got to vote for thad cochran against this guy, this wayne root clone, this tea party guy, chris mcdaniel. why? because he wants to cut spending. what thad cochran promises is to keep the welfare checks coming, to keep the food stamp checks, to keep the unemployment checks coming in to keep all the bacon coming from washington, d.c. for every employer in the area. the election was sworn by democratic votes in the republican primary. there's no hope for america at all. if both parties act the exact same way. at this moment it's pretty clear they do. the way you get elected is by promising people three things. free contraception's, free obama phones, free everything. free health care. you promise people free and some of them are just dumb enough and a good enough to vote for it. but there is no free. there is no free lunch. >> go ahead. >> name is scott nelson. i heard that you point out politicians -- summit and dull outfitters once they are elected. did you do that part? >> yes, i did. >> george will has referred to the current campaign finance laws as and incumbent protection re

in the meantime, ballots are being printed that list senator thad cochran as the republican nominee toenator from mississippi. >> woodruff: and finally tonight, to california. we have partnered with i- newsource, a san diego-based journalism nonprofit, to take us inside special nursing home units where thousands of people live on life support. the state spends millions of dollars on this type of care designed to preserve life at all costs. families often have high hopes for their loved ones to recover, but few ever will. i-newsource reporter joanne faryon reports on the impossible choice facing those families, when to let go. >> you know me, you know me, your husband steve. >> reporter: steve simmons spends most evenings by his wife's bedside. rafaela simmons is severely brain injured. >> squeeze my hand. >> reporter: she has a feeding tube in her abdomen, a tracheotomy tube in her throat, she is unable to walk or talk, or respond to the world around her. >> squeeze my hand. >> reporter: she has lived in this nursing home for the past four years. >> reporter: rafaela is one of the 4,00

eric cantor and senators pat roberts and thad cochran were deeply rumored in the primaries by charges they had forsaken constituents to permanently marinate in the power of washington. landrieu, already vulnerable, could face more trouble if that narrative sticks. >> and it inevitably leads to a tv commercial that says when she first went to washington, she was one of us, now she's one of them. >> reporter: while the complaints may be more of a political publicity employ, a former candidate in the senate race is actually pursuing legal action. state representative paul hollis is suing landrieu in a baton rouge court hoping to have her disqualified. bret? >> john, thank you. >>> now for a possible problem for kansas republican senator pat roberts to the. democratic nominee chad taylor is withdrawing his candidacy tonight. that opens the door for independent challenger greg orman who actually led roberts by ten points head to head in an august survey by public policy polling. that is a liberal group. >>> home depot is the latest retailer with what appears to be a major credit card data

challenger but it seems they are going to come in and try to save pat roberts, somebody similar to thad cochrant had to run a real race for some time. how much does this worry the national republican party and how much are they going to do to try to get roberts over the finish line. >> it's a very troubling situation for national republicans, they never thought they would have to put time and resources into kansas, a deeply conservative state. they are sending a long time republican consultant to the state to try to kick start the campaign and ousted the campaign manager a long time confident, kicked off the campaign yesterday. a real shake upand a lot of concern and worry. >> kansas is interesting right now, the governor is sam brownback, who positioned himself as a tea party prag natic governor who could lead is facing a revot. a lot of moderate republicans are endorsing the democratic challenger and what is happening there? >> he's facing revolt, really the backlash, a generation ago it was sam brownback and republicans in kansas going up -- always a republican state but pragmatic brand of r

senator thad cochran survived his.tennessee, they didn't get alexander, he ended up winning by quite a large margin. roberts survived a primary challenge. so, you know, the tea party did not have a good track record. you know, when you look down at the competitive races all republicans got through of the candidates that they thought would have the best shot t facing democrats here in the fall. so republicans definitely bolstered up their money and put their money where their mouths were and got the people through that they needed to get through for the -- for the november elections. host: and politics reporter so much call, thanks for the look back and preview as we talk about the end of primary season. >> thanks for having me. ost: we love to hear viewer thoughts as well on your reflections of the primary season this year, campaign 2014. we're asking,tion what races are you watching heading to november. louisiana on et, our line for republicans. jim, good morning. good morning, in louisiana we would love to get rid of

of three decades, people like john danforth, strom thurmond, nancy cassel balm, arlen specter, thad cochran, this was always a bipartisan effort and that was before citizens united, before mccutcheon when things went from bad to worse. it's not a radical idea. in fact, it's pretty simple. it would give back power to congress to regulate campaign finance at the federal level, and to states at the state level. that's it. period. we do not dictate specific reforms. we cannot -- we can debate the specifics and we should, but congress has a duty and a right to enact sensible campaign finance reform. the american people support reform because they know a basic truth -- no matter how hard some may try to obscure it, when the court says money is free speech, there is a great risk that special interests can drown out the voices of everyone else. because we know you don't get something for nothing. folks writing those checks want something in return,whether it's democratic billionaires or republican billionaires, then value for their money, which usually means less compromise. and which usually means