that's just bologna. >> we out to let campaigns raise the money they need and get rid of these super packs. >> john harwood is cnbc chief correspondent. we knew going into this election it was going to be super pack, super pack, super pack. the time is upon us now. what do you make of it? do regular people, is this a washington fight about who is spending what on whom? do regular people, iowa voter, new hampshire voters, do they differentiate at all and does this matter in a meaningful way in terms of voting? >> they don't differentiate. and it does matter. these are mitt romney attacks on newt gingrich and they're working. we can see that from the polls. newt gingrich in some sense is paying the price for not having a campaign organization, not having raised the money that mitt romney has, for having a momentum-driven campaign that boosted up his poll numbers in the last month but that makes him susceptible to what the better organized campaign shs and that's specifically newt romney can do to them and they're doing it right now. >> john, i want to play a little bit of the romney su