• Charlie Pierce of Esquire’s Politics Blog calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about today’s Southern primaries, and about the GOP’s assault on women’s rights
• David Shuster of Current TV and We Act Radio in DC calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about today’s Southern primaries
• Recent polling indicates that Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are in a statistical dead heat in Mississippi and Alabama, the two primaries today with more meaningful delegates tallies up for grabs: 50 in Alabama and 40 in Mississippi, all awarded proportionally.
• A controversial new Texas law requiring voters to present personal identification before going to the polls has been blocked by the Obama administration. The Justice Department said the legislation could have a discriminatory effect on Hispanics and other minorities.
• Hundreds of people took to the streets Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan to protest the recent killing of 16 civilians, which has been blamed on a U.S. soldier who walked off base in the middle of the night and went door-to-door on a shooting spree.
• Democratic Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner is the third female lawmaker to introduce a bill that would limit men’s access to Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs to make a statement about the dozens of anti-abortion bills that have passed statehouses around the country over the last year.
