Will people get political and how will the president respond . I want to start with our White House Correspondent ath. Do you think hes ready to get specific . I dont think it necessarily means that specifics are going to be laid out tonight. We know this is a huge priority for this white house and for republicans on capitol hill. Its also a huge challenge. Governor john ca came to the whe on friday and he spelled out the challenge facing republicans as they try to repeal and replace this law on face the nation this morning. Take a listen. You also dont want to be in a position of where you dont cover these 20 million americans. You have to make sure that you have a system thats reformed, thats more affordable, and is going to work, but were just not going to pull the rug out from under people. And that is really the main challenge. You have 20 Million People who now have coverage because of the Affordable Care act and there a lot of folks showing up at these republican town halls and
politics and in particular are very robust very durable claims we have about how the internet is supposed to empower ordinary citizens. so the hope was that the internet would allow the campaigns to be run differently and to be less elite and focused and driven but allows citizens to in some cases even create their own news and the hope was ordinary people would have a greater voice in the political system. some parts of that has come true with many others, not to read what are some success stories? i argued in the book that certainly end of 2004 and 2008 campaign cycle we did see a campaign where big money was less important than it had been in previous cycles, that we saw more of the money that ran on the presidential campaigns coming from people of middle-income. so that s certainly we certainly saw the first with dena and kerry and of course in 2008 with obama we so much larger portions of the money that makes politics work coming from more or less ordinary citize