I hereby demote Baron Hill to the rank of Baronet Knoll.
Heh. The problem is that he believes his parents were being too modest when they didn’t name him Earl Mountain.
Hill had expressed interest in running for givernor in 2016, but he hasn’t lived in IN in years (since he was unseated for the second time in 2010 IIRC), and the state constitution requires governors to have lived in the state for the prior 7 years or something. Hill can claim that he was “domiciled” in Seymour while living and working full-time as a lobbyist in the DC area, but it may not fly. Plus, every day that passes makes it less likely that Pence will run for president, and running against Pence for governor woud be quite an upHill run for Baron (ha!). So I’m going to predict that, if Bayh and Ellsworth pass on the Senate race, that Hill will run for the Senate.