GOP's tech hurdle: They don't always get it

Republican presidential prospects like Sens Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have tapped the tech industry’s fat wallets and mined its big-data expertise -- but these 2016 hopefuls couldn’t be further from Silicon Valley when it comes to policy. A series of major divides -- from the fate of net neutrality to the future of surveillance reform -- still splits this trio of prominent pols from Internet giants in the country’s tech heartland, which helped catapult President Barack Obama to well-funded victories in 2008 and 2012.