so what does each and every lawmaker, republican and democrat who s running for office in 2014 need to know about it to win? colin delany is the founder and editor of epolitics.com and the author of how to use the internet to win in 2014. it s great to have you here. we know the political website, political wire, dubbed your book a must read. we ve got democrats in the general and they have been much better at using the internet and technology to advance their campaigns. explain why they seem to have a better grasp on how to utilize it to their advantage. well, there are a lot of reasons that democrats are ahead right now. first i want to say i have a lot of friends on the republican side who are individually very good at using online tools for politics and advocacy, but democrats have built up a robust ecosystem over the last ten years of firms, consultants, nonprofits, training organizations and just a huge pool of trained staff. think about it, obama had almost 4,000 people work
0 hartwood. john, good morning to you. let s begin with the core of this deal. explain to all of us that core and then the sticking points involved. well, essentially it s a mild easing of economic sanctions, which the united states insists is reversible, in return for a freeze in the iranian nuclear program that does not dismanlts that program and that s the core of the objection. and whether or not you like or don t like this deal, it is basically a test of whether you think diplomacy is possible in this situation or ultimately we ll have a military showdown with iran. if we don t get a comprehensive agreement at the end of several months, this will not matter much at all. but we may not be in a worse place than we are right now. ultimately if we can t trust iran and verify the steps that they pledged to take to dismantle the program, we re not going to get anywhere and ultimately we could be headed for a showdown with iran as we ve been on a track for, for he has had to deal with