be influencing their votes? here are the 1 states involved, kirsten? >> they absolutely should. if you look at the poll they put up, public sentiment seems to be in favor of the most of the measures the senate will be voting on. the least amount of support went for the assault weapons ban. that was 51%. that is not even a part of the bill in front of congress. so i think that mayor bloomberg is actually, his advocacy is lined up more with the sentiment of the american people than what the nra is doing. look, i support the nra's right to make their case and to run ads but i do think they need to have a counterbalance and they haven't really had a counterbalance. that's why i think they're freaking out about mayor bloomberg. they haven't had anybody with the kind of resources to come up against them until now. heather: rich, he has used those resources successfully before, at least, two house races. one in california last november and then, in the special house election just