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Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

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184 points praneshp | 1 comments | 21 Nov 17 21:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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1024core ◴[21 Nov 17 22:18 UTC] No.15752149[source]▶
Is she planning to run for Governor again?
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jedberg ◴[21 Nov 17 22:22 UTC] No.15752180[source]▶
More likely Senate. Feinstein is up in 2018 and the tides are turning against her. It would be a tough slog but doable. Oh and she'd have to run as a Democrat. I don't think a Republican could get elected in California in 2018.
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briholt ◴[21 Nov 17 22:32 UTC] No.15752237[source]▶
The smart move would be to say she's switching parties because of Trump, run as a conservative Democrat left of Trump but right of the progressive wing.
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komali2 ◴[21 Nov 17 22:39 UTC] No.15752287[source]▶
I feel like 2018 is going to boil down to only whether you have an (R) or (D) next to your name, if the election in Alabama is any indication.

When people will vote for a pedophile to avoid putting a checkmark next to a (D), that's when you can give up faith in the average citizen's regard for the details of an election.

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1. azernik ◴[22 Nov 17 01:20 UTC] No.15753389{3}[source]▶
This is part of what I really like about California's top-two primary system - in a dominant-party system like we have, we end up in a situation where two candidates of the dominant party have to compete on ideology and policy, and the members of the minority party still get an equal say.

With regards to Alabama, the general vibe I've gotten is that the very large evangelical bloc in the state is conflicted - trapped between very strongly held policy preferences (especially on abortion and LGBT rights) and their views on personal morality. Moore has seen a large slide in the polls, including among evangelicals, but there are a lot that are willing to hold their noses and disbelieve for their preferred policies.

See this very interesting write-up: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-values-that-values-...