i want to go to the news desk with john mcardle. john: voters in super tuesday states will get a bit of a reprieve for a while from all of the ads they have been seeing on the television, at least until the general election, but numbers coming out about the money spent on ads in super tuesday states. all the candidates combined spent about $23 million on tv advertising in super-tuesday states, according to this nbc news story that came out. forces spending about $2 million in southern states, with bigger dollar amounts in georgia, tennessee, and ted cruz's home state of texas, which he carried. rubio and his allies have spent about 500,000. pro-trunk forces -- pro-trump forces spent about $1.1 million. one other thing i wanted to bring up -- one of your tweets that you read was from didi fredericks asking what to make of the surging gop voters versus the drop-off on the democratic side. all a lot of speculation about that on the democratic side of the aisle, and in news reports looking at voter rolls. here is a story from "the tulsa