Hey Hey In Rockers and Welcome to The Lobby, our chance to catch up and chat each month here in the pages of the Mighty In Rock! By the time you read column our elections for President will be over and we will know the outcome of this seemingly never-ending campaign for the office that runs in the background and eventually inescapable forefront here in the United States. I know Japan has just selected a new Prime Minister through the publicly elected local officials and went through their selection process in a defined period of time that led to the selection of Shigeru Ishiba. In the US we have a different system which allows each citizen to cast a vote in a general election, that general election and its campaigning strategies starts pretty much the day after the election is decided. But there’s another twist in our system, although there is a general election the President is actually chosen by a body called the electoral college, this is a group of people selected to represent each state in a separate vote that actually decides the winner. Quite often a candidate will win the general election with the public vote, but through the electoral voting process will still lose the election. Kind of a messed-up concept I think, and one that has been controversial over the past few decades. I think we should have the campaigns be 12 weeks maximum and have a general election without the extra step of the electoral college, but I’m just a dude in a band, so I guess I’ll just stay in my lane, right?

This year the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has decided not to run for a second term (which is the limit) against former Republican President Donald Trump and in his place the Vice President, Kamala Harris was nominated to run against Trump. Kamala would of course be the first female President of the US, also being African American and Asian descent makes her a pretty unique and exciting choice by the Democratic party. The differences between the 2 candidates’ styles, concepts and approach to campaigning could not be much more different from each other. This extended campaigning season is exhausting and really, in my opinion, needs to be streamlined so it’s not so overwhelming and drawn out so the public could focus more on the policies than the propaganda from each party. Talk of people eating cats and dogs, candidates working shifts at McDonalds, unsubstantiated claims that are easily debunked are abundant during these last couple of weeks in a desperate attempt to scare and influence people to vote in their direction. Insults and criticisms seem to be the focus of these last few weeks, but as always we encourage people here to go out and make their voice heard! SO, as I said the US will take one of 2 directions in the next couple of weeks and I’m just kind of excited to have it be over with quite honestly.

Ok!, on to some Music talk! Goo Goo Dolls are currently in demo mode as we prepare music for the new album which we hope to have out early next year! John has been writing in NYC and I’ve been here in Buffalo at my studio doing the same, can’t wait for you all to hear some new music, and we can’t wait to hear it finished ourselves! We are readying songs, and stage sets for a huge North American tour to be announced in the next few weeks! We’re also headed to South Africa in December, for a bunch of shows! I’ll make sure to take you all along with us for the trip!

OK, that’s it for today, hope to see you next month and we’ll briefly catch up on things here in the US political scene, but thankfully get back to the music, that’s where we need to be ….

Peace and talk soon!

Robby

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