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The Trump presidency put a spotlight on the damage that can be done by a combination of:

- Concerted attempts by press and others to create a filter bubbles

- An electorate that's unwilling to look outside their preferred bubbles

Those problems don't go away with a new president. What's the solution? How do we prevent the next election cycle from being worse?


Revising our electoral system to change the incentives for political parties and politicians would be an approach. Winner-take-all on a state by state basis with single-party primaries produce candidates who are far from the median voter and then campaign to drum up support among their party base. Universal primary systems encourage candidates with broader appeal outside of their party to end up as the party nominee, who then have a much easier time running a general election campaign on appealing to opposition party voters rather than being forced by the positions they took in their primary to campaign only to boost turnout among their existing base.


comScore | Senior Software Engineer | Portland, OR | Onsite | Full-time | http://www.comscore.com/

comScore tracks and analyzes consumer TV and digital media consumption, demographics, and purchase behavior. Our clients include most major U.S. ad agencies, media companies, TV networks, movie studios, and advertisers.

We're hiring a developer in our Advanced Applications group to help build a customer facing analytics tool. This is a development intensive role where you'll use your technical skills to implement solutions to challenging problems that are not met by widely used technologies (ie, you'll be writing more code and using fewer frameworks and platforms).

You'll work on a high performance distributed datastore and query engine, running on Linux and written in C (with a little x86 assembly), Python, and Lua. AWS and Ansible experience would also be helpful.

Learn more at http://www.comscore.com/Careers/Job_Opportunities?sfid=20100. If you're interested, send an email to the address in my profile. I'm a developer, not a recruiter, so feel free to ask technical questions.


comScore | Senior Software Engineer | Portland, OR | Onsite | Full-time | http://www.comscore.com/

comScore tracks and analyzes consumer TV and digital media consumption, demographics, and purchase behavior. Our clients include most major U.S. ad agencies, media companies, TV networks, movie studios, and advertisers.

We're hiring a developer in our Advanced Applications group to help build a customer facing analytics tool. This is a development intensive role where you'll use your technical skills to implement solutions to challenging problems that are not met by widely used technologies (ie, you'll be writing more code and using fewer frameworks and platforms).

You'll work on a high performance distributed datastore and query engine, running on Linux and written in C (with a little x86 assembly), Python, and Lua. AWS and Ansible experience would also be helpful

Learn more at http://www.comscore.com/Careers/Job_Opportunities?sfid=20100. If you're interested, send an email to the address in my profile. I'm a developer, not a recruiter, so feel free to ask technical questions.


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