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Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

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184 points praneshp | 3 comments | 21 Nov 17 21:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.971s | 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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patorjk ◴[21 Nov 17 22:36 UTC] No.15752267[source]▶
Some people think she may be thinking about running against Trump in 2020 - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/kevin-oleary-thinks-meg-whit...
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junkscience2017 ◴[21 Nov 17 22:49 UTC] No.15752362[source]▶
Silicon Valley is trending for like-ability about where Wall Street was in 2008. But of course she should run, as should Zuckerberg, Thiel, Altman etc because it would be a hoot watching them go down in flames.
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013a ◴[21 Nov 17 23:34 UTC] No.15752744[source]▶
If Clinton's 9-figure campaign couldn't get a handle on what the average American voter wants from their government, it would be downright hilarious to watch someone from Silicon Valley try. The region is so far out of touch, they aren't even on the same planet.
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dragonwriter ◴[22 Nov 17 00:01 UTC] No.15752931[source]▶
The problem wasn't Clinton's campaign, it was the candidate; it's amazing that a candidate that widely hated and whose negatives were rock solid from decades of political exposure still managed to get more votes than Trump, who came in with slightly higher negatives, but about whom voters had far less firm opinions.
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specialist ◴[22 Nov 17 02:41 UTC] No.15753781[source]▶
Uh huh. Overt racism & sexism, foreign meddling, systemic disenfranchisement, Johnson & Stein pulling a Nader (+2m votes over 2012), $3b of free earned pro-Trump media, Comey’s sabotage, the electoral college, and 300k opioid addicts voting for the Big Chief were all totally irrelevant.

Nope. HRC was unlikeable. It’s all her own fault.

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1. vturner ◴[22 Nov 17 13:23 UTC] No.15756545[source]▶
> the electoral college

How inconvenient that the minority vote of states without mass populations centers is valued.

> Johnson & Stein

I voted for Johnson, it was not a "Nader." If we don't like the system, then we must force pressure upon it.

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2. jartelt ◴[22 Nov 17 16:39 UTC] No.15758156[source]▶
States without mass population centers still get 2 senators, so they are valued, even without an electoral college...
3. specialist ◴[22 Nov 17 18:26 UTC] No.15759132[source]▶
I respect your vote. But. Elections have consequences. Voting is a chess move, not a valentines.

And any viable new third party must be grown from the bottom up. That’s just how it works. If you want more choices, I encourage you to advocate for Approval Voting (as I do). First a little, than a lot.