Roadmap for the Next 99 Days
The US Presidential elections are finally entering the homestretch after a seemingly endless qualify season. USA Today has laid out the last meters in great detail. They describe how the campaigns try to prepare in advance for the events they know about and how they react to all the unscripted surprises that might happen before it’s all over November 4th. Prime example are the Olympic Games, during which both candidates will find it hard to generate substantial press coverage of their campaigns.
Here’s what fills the calendars of both John McCain and Barack Obama.
Aug. 1- Democratic national platform hearing in Cleveland
Aug. 4- Barack Obama’s 47th birthday
Aug. 8- Summer Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing
Aug. 16- Obama and John McCain at a forum hosted by evangelical leader Rick Warren at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
Aug. 25- Democratic convention opens in Denver
Aug. 28- Obama accepts Democratic nomination at Invesco Field at Mile High
Aug. 29- McCain’s 72nd birthday
Sept. 1- Republican convention opens in St. Paul
Sept. 4- McCain accepts Republican nomination at Xcel Energy Center
Sept. 11- Seventh anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks
Sept. 12- Values Voter Summit opens in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the
conservative Family Research Council
Sept. 15– By week’s end, the last of the additional U.S. combat forces deployed to Iraq last year are scheduled to have been withdrawn. If additional forces are pulled home or repositioned to Afghanisten, a heavy debate about Obama’s stance on the surge is likely to start.
Sept. 18- Google/YouTube candidates’ forum in New Orleans
Sept. 26- First presidential debate sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, at the University of Mississippi in Oxford; on domestic policy
Oct. 1– October Surprise?
Oct. 2- Vice presidential debate sponsored by the debates commission, at Washington University in St. Louis
Oct. 7- Second presidential debate, at Belmont University in Nashville; town-hall format
Oct. 15- Third and final presidential debate, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.; on foreign policy.
Oct. 23- Final pre-election campaign finance reports due to Federal Election Commission
Nov. 4- Election Day
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