• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not for nothing but four months should be plenty to do an election in. 24 hour news media has convinced you that it’s got to be a 2-year endeavor. In all honesty 2 months should be plenty. Four is fine. Our entire country would be much better off if election seasons were shorter.

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        Smaller country, less money involved… but here’s hoping.

        Edit: I’m not sure why I’m being downvoted. Comparing the speed of the British election cycle to that of the US is mismatched. Yes, US elections are ridiculous and bloated, but that’s still the reality of them. Regardless, we’ll have to do things faster based on circumstances.

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          France put together a winning left coalition in 2 weeks.

          How does the US being a bigger, wealthier, country mean we are weaker? I’m so tired of these arguments about what we can’t do. If Biden dropped out 2 weeks before November it would be a disaster. As it is, he is listening to the legitimate concerns of the people.

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          3 months ago

          Well, the US is literally the second-most populous electoral democracy and the third-most populous country in the world, so I say we’ll need some time.

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            The largest democracy takes around two months of campaigning and about six weeks for voting.

            Population scales proportionately for both the number of voters and for number of people working on a campaign and number of people working at polling stations on election day.

            And let’s be honest, it’s only a small number of states that Presidential campaigns actually focus on because of that whole Electoral College thing.

            It’s just the US is accustomed to a long election cycle, that’s all. It’s not a necessity. It may not actually be a good thing as it allows time for bad actors to construct false narratives. Seems to just favour personality over policy.