It's Thursday, May 23rd, 2024, and usually Fridays are Ask or Tell Me Anything.

Not so today. It's a Thursday edition of Outma. That's the acronym I give for it.

Next on the AM Update.

Well, this week is a little bit different of a schedule, in part because I need a break and because also I have a different schedule of sorts with my day job, which means that I

really needed to cut this week short by just a day on the AM update. Nevertheless, we've got some things to talk about

this morning. Before we get to ask or tell me anything, there are actually a few news items that

I would like to talk about. First, we're going to talk about this. You might have seen this story

floating around yesterday. A few different outlets actually publicized this, but this is a story from the blaze about what's going on

in the state of Ohio with ballots and Joe Biden. As things currently stand, President Joe Biden is

not, not slated to be on the Ohio ballot this November, and the state legislature did not

immediately remedy the situation

before adjourning. Ohio law requires both parties to certify their nominees for president and

vice president 90 days before election day, which falls on November 5th in this election cycle.

The problem for the Biden camp is that the scheduling for the Democratic National Convention

is such that Biden will not officially be nominated by his party until August 22nd, just 75 days

before Election Day. Alabama ran into a similar problem this year, but the Republican supermajority

there easily resolved the problem earlier this month to

ensure Biden appears on the ballot. Not so in Ohio, though both the House and Senate in the

Buckeye state passed resolutions to address the problem, neither of those bills advanced

during the May 8th session. So, as of now, Joe Biden, who is still the presumptive nominee

for the Democrat Party,

will not be on the ballot of one of the largest states in the Union, Ohio, come November.

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