john nichols is a political writer for the nation.latest book, with robert mcchesney, is "dollarocracy: how the money and media election complex is destroying america." joining us from madison, wisconsin. from san francisco we are joined by lee fong. he is a reporting fellow with the investigative fund at the nation institute, and blogs about money and politics at the republic report. and still with us in new york, ben jealous, chair of the southern election fund, which he started with julian bond, former president and ceo of the naacp. we welcome you all to democracy now! the south ase in we were talking about georgia. give us the lay of the land. >> right now you have four states in the south whether our new voter suppression laws go into effect with this race. you have texas and alabama, virginia, and north carolina. the first three we're talking about new voter id laws. it will have a huge impact. texas, the margin of victory is typically 600,000 votes. their law will impact about 600,000 voters. the margin is about 60,000 votes.

john nichols is a political writer for the nation.latest book, with robert mcchesney, is "dollarocracy: how the money and media election complex is destroying america." joining us from madison, wisconsin. from san francisco we are joined by lee fong. he is a reporting fellow with the investigative fund at the nation institute, and blogs about money and politics at the republic report. and still with us in new york, ben jealous, chair of the southern election fund, which he started with julian bond, former president and ceo of the naacp. we welcome you all to democracy now! the south ase in we were talking about georgia. give us the lay of the land. >> right now you have four states in the south whether our new voter suppression laws go into effect with this race. you have texas and alabama, virginia, and north carolina. the first three we're talking about new voter id laws. it will have a huge impact. texas, the margin of victory is typically 600,000 votes. their law will impact about 600,000 voters. the margin is about 60,000 votes.

john nichols, thank you for being with us.e willing to your report, "obama need not accept 'lame duck' status." we're going to get a break in here from bernie sanders, the independent governor of vermont, and also look at how the issue of obamacare and single-payer has played into the vermont race. very interestingly. the popular governor peter shumlin facing a serious crisis now. it looks like that governor's race will be decided by the legislature. it is the only state, i believe, in the country where when a -- forte doesn't get 50% example, louisiana, they will have a runoff. in vermont, the legislature decides who will be the next governor. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. last night tuesday night during democracy now! five hour special broadcast, we spoke with independent senator bernie sanders of vermont, just as it started to become clear from early election results of the senate was clearly going to be controlled by republicans. >> wha

up next a discussion about the influence of money on politics with the author of dollarocracy, john nichols. >> insnow of huge amounts of money to our politics has changed almost everything about our politics for the worst, not for the better. the truth of the matter is, historically in american political campaigns, the dominant force in the campaign, the center of the campaign was your human level engagement with people. that has just been blown apart. the fact of the matter is, now, we have campaigns that are defined by sound bites, not real addresses, not real interactions of people. they are often defined at the state level by flying around the state in a jet and landing at an airport, having an appearance, before a couple of cameras, getting back in the plane and flying off. certainly that is the case at national level. what we have ended up with a politics very much delinked from all those human level interactions. and candidates tell me they will tell you, in fact they have in many cases, that, huge portions of their days used to be spent interacting with humans, are now devoting run

up next a discussion of influence of money on politics with the off of "dollarocracy," john nichols.w of huge amounts of money to our politics has changed almost everything about our politics for the worst. not for the better. the truth of the matter is that historically in american political campaign the dominant force, the center of the campaign was your human level engagement with people. that has been blown apart. they are often defined as the state level by flying around the state in a jet landing at an airport, having an appearance before a couple of cameras getting back in the plane and flying off. certain that's the case at the national level. what we've ended up with is a politics that is very much delink from all those human level interactions, and candidates tell me they want to you, they have in many cases the huge portion of their data is to be spent interacting with the citizens used to be spent on the grassroots human level of campaigning are now devoted to running out a list of names of rich people, calling them and asking them for money. sometimes candidates have tol

. >> oscar wing director mike nichols died at the age of 83. >> john has the latest.he last play i saw him direct was death of a salesman with phillip seymour half man. >> he won an oscar for that or a tony. his career respond half a century an filled with some of the most memorable films ever, from "whose afraid of virginia wolf eve" to" the graduate" he is remembered as one of the most acclaimed directors in the history of film and stage. he was german born. he was oscar nominated for "working girl,"" charlie wilson's war." won all four major awards in his lifetime. he's the record holder for the most tony awards for direction here on broadway with six of they will, including "death of a salesman." he was married to diane sawyer in 1988. just to sum up the passion he had for writing and directing, here is a quote we found. he shared this a few years ago, saying: >> i saw him at a public radio station appearing with phillip seymour hoffman. it was very evident how much he loves actors and what they can -- >> we throw that moniker around a lot, a legend, but this case

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nicholls incredible work on the big screen. >>> monday is the deadline for striking a deal on a nuclear programme. secretary of state johnerry arrived in vienna for new negotiations. he's holding out hopes for a last-minute bargain. >> john kerry, the secretary of state arriving in vienna as the clock ticks towards the deadline. iran, and international negotiate juniors, the p5+1, the five permanent members, as well as germany, are trying to build on an interim deal. a ground-breaking agreement is possible. >> we are not discussing extension, we are negotiating to get an agreement. it's that simple. look, you know, if you get to the time hour, and you are in need of having to look at alternatives we'll look at them. i'm not telling you that we are not looking at something, we are not looking at them, not now. >> negotiate jorls are closer to a -- negotiators are close to a deal. difficult issues are left to the end. reports from tran suggesting the -- tehran, suggesting that iranon side will not make concessions on the plant used to produce plutonium. and that iran has not made a deadline to provide information requested

john lewis did it last year. we have online retailers, 20% off everything for cyber we can. harvey nichols today. lurere going to try to people in with the idea of a deal early on. what is interesting is germany is adopting this. >> that was an agreement -- an ingredient last year. >> i think so. claimed to bring it over, but suddenly it has gone viral. we have the electronics store in germany. a have black week. in france you have the supermarket chain offering deals. they are exporting it to their own stores and other countries. vietnam, senegal, colombia. even south africa have got 50% off. this really has gone global. i think black friday is going to be redundant. i think it is going to be cyber we can. we are all -- weekend. we are all going to spend more on monday. >> we spoke to somebody who said between 7:00 and 8:00 this evening and the u.k. are going to be the peak time. the jury is still out as to whether discounting this early is going to help retailers. >> any analysts are trying to read the flag. tomany analysts are trying read the flag. could it the red -- could it be read f