For the most part, I am remaining silent this week on political matters. Since the media is involved in the DNC and/or bashing the DNC, there is not any interesting media news to report.
Nevertheless, at the end of last week, there were stories about how the Obama campaign and the DNC would fill the 73,000 seat Bank of America stadium for the acceptance speech by president Obama. The stories persisted that the stadium would be filled. Upo until yesterday, the speech would go on "rain or shine" and it would be filled.
The stories last week said that the campaign was giving away tickets to bar patron in several cities including Charlotte and to African-American churches in South Carolina. Transportation would be provided. This would help fill the stadium.
Now the DNC is having a change of venue. Bank of America stadium is out, Time Warner Cable arena is in. TWC arena is the venue for the DNC. According to the DNC and campaign weather is now the issue. It was just yesterday, however, that the DNC said "rain or shine." The DNC is saying that the forecast calls for severe weather and thunderstorms for Thursday. Both weather.com and weatherundergrond are calling for a 40% chance of rain during the day on Thursday diminishing to a 30% chance by the time Obama was scheduled to speak.
The question remain, is it the weather or that lack of enthusiasm that has been reported in recent weeks? You decide.
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