It's Been Awhile

With only 90 days until the election, August is shaping up to be a busy month.

There will be one more final presidential primary held in the state of Connecticut on Friday, but it’s clear that Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee with 2,627 delegates to his name. And the heat is on already for a vice presidential candidate pick. He is planning to announce his choice of running mate later this week.

I have an image already to go for my Facebook page of the major party nominees. So far I have the Republican Party ticket, the Libertarian Party ticket, and the Green Party ticket and one the Democratic ticket is announced and the new logo/slogan is updated, then I will copy the image and post it on the board.

Also are the planned Conventions. The Democratic Convention is scheduled for August 17-20 in Winsonsin. I will hopefully try to post my live updates and thoughts regarding that. It’s always shown on TV in front of a packed crowd with speeches over a course span of four days, but it will be done virtually this year. I will try to get my thoughts out there when I can, so bear with me as I’ve also got a school semester vastly approaching.

The week after is the Republican, Usually I watch both party conventions to get both sides, as I’ve been doing it since 2004, but with COVID-19 it’s gotten interesting. If my memory serves me correctly, the RNC was going to be held on the first week of August in Charlotte, North Carolina and it was going to be in front of a packed crowd (as Voldermort for some reason doesn’t like the virtual concept), and things were going fine at first as the venue was all set.

But then Trump’s Greenville rally changed all that. The Charlotte City Council met shortly thereafter and proposed retracting the bid. Even the state’s governor Roy Cooper thought it wasn’t a good idea given the nature of the pandemic, but he would reconsider if the event was scaled down.

The little orange man didn’t like it and took to his favorite social media network (Twitter) to either complain, vent his frustrations, or act like the immature spoiled brat he is.

In the end, the Republican Party caved and a whole new location was chosen days later. Jacksonville, Florida will be where all the speeches and main events will be. However, day one of the four-day event will still be held in Charlotte. Last I heard and read, the number of delegates would be reduced as 300 will be in attendance. The days agenda will be greatly reduced. So it’ll be interesting to say the least to se what happens as to both conventions will take this.

After this, we have the four debates during the next two months (three presidential and one vice-president). As I will be in an online class and depending on homework load, I will listen to the debates in podcast form and offer my own feedback whenever I can. I may take more time with those than with the conventions, so if I post the final debates by either that Friday to Sunday of the weekend, I should be in shape.

If this wasn’t an unusual situation with COVID and with Biden being the presumptive nominee, I would’ve posted the presidential primaries on a regular basis.

So here we are. Let the final 90+ days or so commence. Because if everything goes to plan, I’m so ready to start playing some Christmas music early when this is all said and done.