Eric Holcomb is the Governor of Indiana. This makes him the successor to Vice President Michael Pence. It would be a great victory if the Democratic Party could pick up this Governorship in the November election. The Governor will play a role in whatever reapportionment follows the 2020 census, so it would be a victory with some consequences for the partisan balance going forward both in that state and in the US House of Representatives. But perhaps as important, it would be symbolic -- a rejection of Holcomb would look a lot like a repudiation of Pence, even should Trump and Pence receive a new term on the same day. The Democratic Party's best hope to pull off this result, its most plausible gubernatorial candidate, is Woody Myers, a former New Yorker. Myers, pictured above, was health commissioner of NYC under Mayor Dinkins. The fact that Myers ever worked in NYC may work against him in Indiana at present. The fact that he has a public health background may work f...
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Just an observation. One of the cutting edge fields in the tech world today is the sale of cloud services. Even big companies don't want to have to own their own servers if they don't have to. Amazon and Oracle both own a lot of servers, more than they need, so Amazon and Oracle in particular (other companies as well) long ago started letting other major companies -- such as the credit card giant Capital One, make use of their facility. Since companies like Amazon have to prepare for peak seasons, and most moments are by definition not "peak," they necessarily have a lot of capacity to sell most of the time. What began as an almost accidental sideline became an industry. This is the sort of service, by the way, that somebody is providing you whenever you say that you've stored certain data "in the cloud." I'm typing this on an HP Chromebook, which runs on google. Chromebook looks like a generic 'laptop' but its distinguishing feature ...