contest. the house speaker had an interesting answer to an interesting question on meet the press. too much money in politics? we spend more money on an acids than we do on politics. if that s sounds too curious of a statistic to be true. someone dug into his data. it does eclipse federal campaign money, the same can t be said for americans specifically. from msnbc news.com note from waitress, tip the schools, not me. it was her last shift as she was quitting her job and she wanted to make a point about a recent change in funding plans. she put an x in the place for tip writing tip the schools. and secretary of state john kerri could not pass up the opportunity to take a selfie with an elephant at a sanctuary.
to change traction and mitt romney has been on his heels in the last 10-14 days an wants to reverse that. we will check you in our next hour. thank you. there are very few places in this country you can turn on the television or radio and not see or hear a campaign commercial. spending on campaign advertisements has now hit an eye popping $634 million. of that $634 million, $30 million was booked in the last four days of this week alone. joining me now, michael covers politics for msnbc news.com. good saturday afternoon to you. thanks. let s break down team romney, his campaign and outside groups are responsible for roughly $340 million. team obama and outside groups responsible for $293 million. how close are we to the point of saturation?