phil manning lee is going to help make sense of it over the coming months with his new series, powerhe will introduce us to key players, talking about some of the key issues. today, rnc headquarters and the new digital effort. >> 2012 election headlines told the story. a tech and data victory, and a failure by republicans. republican officials and donors wasted little time amending the resources and the tech to match democrats and avoid a repeat of the 2014 midterms. chuck defeo. >> we have the team that work with our data, who aggregate it and do the quality control. we also have scientists, people building models of data. >> inside the national headquarters, chuck is overseeing a new model for efforts to streamline massive amounts of voter data. he is working with $17 million, more than 40 full-time staff, and a recruiting effort that reached the top engineering schools in the company, as well as facebook and linkedin. >> we are working to make sure our teams have the data and analytics they need. >> there is a platform to streamline the reams of voter information coming from e-mai