Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton

http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign/

by antr • 11 years ago

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0x493• 11 years ago

Google is basically running and funding the democratic party in the United States. This combined with their NSA compliance is a scary thing.

I now find it suspect whenever they want to make changes to the search results, especially when it always seems to favor their political party.

Bernie Sanders will never win simply because his goal is to put a stop to this bullshit.

mudil5• 11 years ago

Oh, c'mon. Bernie Sanders is an exciting candidate for you? Give me a break. Do Democrats have anyone, anyone, under 60?

0x493• 11 years ago

no, I would never vote for him. I'm just giving a reason why I don't think he has a chance.

rabbyte2• 11 years ago

As far as I can tell (I opted out of election cycles), Bernie Sanders is the second leading candidate for the Democrats. Let's not feign surprise that there are people who find him exciting and be respectful.

Steko• 11 years ago

The Democrats have many people under 60, they just aren't running because of the perceived Clinton juggernaut.

dragonwriter3• 11 years ago

Bernie Sanders is an exciting candidate for you?

Yes.

Do Democrats have anyone, anyone, under 60?

Age is pretty much orthogonal to what makes a candidate exciting, to me at least.

But, yes, the Democrats have lots of people under 60, including at least two of those running for the Presidential nomination in 2016: Martin O'Malley (52), and Lawrence Lessig (54).

GauntletWizard• 11 years ago

Lawrence Lessig is running[1]. He's only 54. But he's exciting to me for the same reasons that Trump is: He's out of left field.

[1]http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/lessig-lawren...

dikdik2• 11 years ago

I like hearing him speak, I like the 'grumpy grandpa-ness' he espouses and his track record of consistency. I get excited by the actual alternative views he presents, typically it feels like Repubs and Dems are almost the same with only slight deviations on social issues (abortion, immigration, and gay marriage). I like that he doesn't toe party lines and will respectfully criticize Republicans as well as Obama. And again he has authenticity, his views seem to come from an actual place of concern and thought instead of a focus group or from trying to align himself within a particular political ideology.

Animats• 11 years ago

I dunno. Right now, we seem to be headed for Trump vs. Sanders. Bush and Clinton both imploded.

It's hard to tell, though. Polls don't work any more. Gallup recently admitted this. Not only do half of Americans not have a landline (they can only call landlines), on 9 out of 10 calls Gallup makes, the other party won't talk to them.

chimeracoder• 11 years ago

I dunno. Right now, we seem to be headed for Trump vs. Sanders. Bush and Clinton both imploded.

1) It's way too early for polls to be terribly meaningful.

2) It's way too early to write off the candidate who's currently leading in the polls[0] in every state but two[1], as well as racked up the largest number of endorsements faster than virtually any primary candidate in history.

[0] And who's also already won the "invisible primary" (note how few candidates are running on the Democratic ticket - there's a reason most serious candidates opted out of this primary, and her name is Clinton.)

[1] and only leading in those two states when polls include a candidate who's not even running (Biden)!

dragonwriter3• 11 years ago

Right now, we seem to be headed for Trump vs. Sanders. Bush and Clinton both imploded.

Trump's been leading the Republican polls for some time, though he still has a pretty small overall share and Carson has been surging recently. Its pretty hard to justify a claim that its clearly heading toward any particular winner on that side (particularly since its not decided in a national election, but state-by-state elections to assign delegates in a manner which isn't proportionate to share of vote, and there's not frequent enough state-by-state polling to have a clear picture of even the current state of those, much less where they are likely to be by the times they are held.)

On the other hand, while Sanders is doing well in some places, Clinton's still got a about a 20 percentage point lead in most national polling; she's hardly "imploded" the way Bush, widely perceived as an early Republican frontrunner, has. Many of the same concerns exist as discussed above with the Republican ticket as far as drawing conclusions go, but what you can read from polls doesn't show anything like a clear course to a Sanders win.

untog2• 11 years ago

Right now, we seem to be headed for Trump vs. Sanders. Bush and Clinton both imploded.

Pretty much zero chance of that happening. I'll concede that Bush has had a mini-implosion but Clinton is still well on track to be nominee.

cafard• 11 years ago

I ask as a resident of Washington, DC: Do stealthy startups in the rest of the world spend that much time explaining to the press how smart etc. they are? There should be a monument here to the Unknown Consultant/Staffer: the man or maybe woman who was important but never explained to the media that he was the brains behind this or that politician or policy.

trothamel• 11 years ago

It would have a tomb underneath it, but that tomb would be an empty one.

pcunite• 11 years ago

Media begets presidents ...

ghrifter• 11 years ago

Probably investing some money into Hillary so that Trump doesn't become president...

hugh4• 11 years ago

He'd be better off investing in Rubio.

loomin-arty2• 11 years ago

We're hiring, by the way: http://thegroundwork.com/jobs/

cwang912• 11 years ago

DC or remote or what?

loomin-arty2• 11 years ago

Remote is cool, work from NYC or Chicago if you'd prefer an office.

mudil5• 11 years ago

We are hiring!

Billionaire-backed startup is looking for young excited and impressionable individuals to help elect the candidate from the 1990s, so she can push more policies designed by GOOG/TWTR/YAHOO/FB.

Your internet will soon look like your endless shopping malls that you see everywhere.

DrUnderhill• 11 years ago

Yay, we're gettin' a Cinnabon!

untog2• 11 years ago

So, just like most other tech jobs then?

oh_sigh• 11 years ago

I don't support Hillary, but how is she "the candidate from the 90s"?

hackuser3• 11 years ago

On one hand, I don't want to put anyone on the spot. On the other, you are working for a political campaign so I think legitimate questions (i.e., not partisan rhetoric) should go with the territory. Also, potential hires might want to consider these issues:

1) How do you feel about the privacy aspects of gathering all this information about Americans, especially potentially sensitive information about their political views? Can people opt out of your data collection?

2) Is the funding for Groundwork effectively more dark money in the election campaign? If so, do you feel that is detrimental?

3) A more technical question: There have been many campaigns on many levels, including Obama's, utilizing similar tools. Why build new bespoke tools from scratch (if I'm right about that)?

rayscondition• 11 years ago

Interesting, though I'm not much of a Hillary fan, have you considered working with Herman Cain?

dotBen• 11 years ago

curious choice of username to promote The Groundwork's employment opportunities

harper• 11 years ago

I love this thread.

littletimmy2• 11 years ago

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” - Benito Mussolini

We're there.

dang• 11 years ago

The attribution of that quote to Mussolini has long been discredited.

samstave• 11 years ago

Why are you using the word "startup"?

Who gives a shit what the oligarch Schmidt promotes.. but lets not wrap the term "startup" around his BS.

Lets face the facts - Clinton (as well as many others, including any Bush) is an oligarch and a corrupt criminal.

Schmidt is doing a douchebag move of attempting to tie the "startup" lexicon to Clinton's hip in an effort to muster credibility...

It is all bullshit.

Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton

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