back and forth and is kind of a merc mess, to be honest with you. reporter: it is a mess if you are a viewer and a voter, because when turn on your tv, nowhere else in the country are more outside special interest group ads running, independent expenditures, i.e. the vernacular of politics the spending is running now close to $20 million, no place else in the the country are that many outside groups on the air. it s an absolute blizzard. bill: which always follows the story when folks come out and say, i m tired of this stuff! and they ll get their just due in 13 days, thanks, carl, live in denver. martha: this is a story we brought you this morning. anita hill well, have video of her earlier today. and, virginia thomas, the wife of clarence thomas, this is video from ms. hill going into work this morning, and saying that, you know, she was on her way to work and didn t want to talk about anything and all of this is coming. inappropriate what she did.