Can't wait for this to be over. The US election season goes on forever. They really need to shorten it!
Yeah no offence but the length of your elections is completely farcical. From the start of campaign beginnings to polling day, it's the better part of two ****ing years.
And even the length between the first Primary voting day and GE day is over NINE MONTHS.
Our (Aus) last Federal election literally ran eight weeks from announcement to polling day and that was considered a long campaign.
Primary season should be less than a third of the time it current runs for and the GE time should be cut by at least half.
The U.K is the size of New Jersey, the US is massive and has a bigger population so it makes sense that the campaign is longer in the most iconic country in the world while on that little island it only lasts 2 months
The U.K is the size of New Jersey, the US is massive and has a bigger population so it makes sense that the campaign is longer in the most iconic country in the world while on that little island it only lasts 2 months
Nobody needs an election lasting half as long as a term of office, no matter how large the country.
I've said this before though but the length of the US election isn't that bad or shocking if you put it in context.
In most places, the opposition are elected like four or five years before the actual election. Miliband in 2010, for example. Sure, they're not non-stop campaigning for five years, but they on a five year trial on whether the public think they're cut out for the job. America doesn't have that. They just pack it all into a couple of years and make it a lot more intense.
The presidency is known as the highest office in the world, and the length of the primaries and general test their organisation, their mental and physical health, debating skills, how they cope under pressure, their actual ideology... it tests everything you want in a president and gives the chance for the likes of Obama to go from a virtual nobody, to beating one of the most high profile women in the world.
It'd be weird to do it any other way TBH and comparing it to countries like the UK or Australia where they have party leaders going at each other for years prior is a weird comparison. In the UK, most people know who Jeremy Corbyn is and many have made their minds up on him for the 2020 election - not quite the same in America.
The U.K is the size of New Jersey, the US is massive and has a bigger population so it makes sense that the campaign is longer in the most iconic country in the world while on that little island it only lasts 2 months
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Published: 12 April, 2015
How can you say it's not madness that she has been campaigning for over EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
I've said this before though but the length of the US election isn't that bad or shocking if you put it in context.
In most places, the opposition are elected like four or five years before the actual election. Miliband in 2010, for example. Sure, they're not non-stop campaigning for five years, but they on a five year trial on whether the public think they're cut out for the job. America doesn't have that. They just pack it all into a couple of years and make it a lot more intense.
The presidency is known as the highest office in the world, and the length of the primaries and general test their organisation, their mental and physical health, debating skills, how they cope under pressure, their actual ideology... it tests everything you want in a president and gives the chance for the likes of Obama to go from a virtual nobody, to beating one of the most high profile women in the world.
It'd be weird to do it any other way TBH and comparing it to countries like the UK or Australia where they have party leaders going at each other for years prior is a weird comparison. In the UK, most people know who Jeremy Corbyn is and many have made their minds up on him for the 2020 election - not quite the same in America.
This is why the US political system is so imperfect, though. A first-term president only has two years to get things done before they have to start campaigning on their record. That's nothing. House representatives are in constant campaign mode. Only term-limited officeholders and senators with a more reasonable six-year term can spend more time actually doing the job as opposed to trying to keep it.
I've said this before though but the length of the US election isn't that bad or shocking if you put it in context.
In most places, the opposition are elected like four or five years before the actual election. Miliband in 2010, for example. Sure, they're not non-stop campaigning for five years, but they on a five year trial on whether the public think they're cut out for the job. America doesn't have that. They just pack it all into a couple of years and make it a lot more intense.
The presidency is known as the highest office in the world, and the length of the primaries and general test their organisation, their mental and physical health, debating skills, how they cope under pressure, their actual ideology... it tests everything you want in a president and gives the chance for the likes of Obama to go from a virtual nobody, to beating one of the most high profile women in the world.
It'd be weird to do it any other way TBH and comparing it to countries like the UK or Australia where they have party leaders going at each other for years prior is a weird comparison. In the UK, most people know who Jeremy Corbyn is and many have made their minds up on him for the 2020 election - not quite the same in America.
No I mean, undoubtedly they should be longer than Aus/UK considering their population/significance. No question.
I just think Primary season in particular is wayyyy to long and the GE could use some trimming.
No I mean, undoubtedly they should be longer. No question.
I just think Primary season in particular is wayyyy to long and the GE could use some trimming.
I'm not sure, the primaries are sooo long but it is a good test for the candidates to go around so many states and try to win the votes they need, after all, that is what they're going to have to do in the General. One key factor as to why Clinton in 2008 lost again Obama is that her organisation was all over the place, and the length of the primaries exposed that and allowed Obama to build up his name.
I think its the fact the news completely swamps you with it for two years that makes it feel so draining, there should be coverage on it, but I swear 90% of the time I've turned CNN on in the last two years its just been politics I can defo see why it feels too long.
Watching AND complaining (when most of them that can won't even bother to go out and vote)..
I hope no one takes this the wrong way, but it's been proven that people that generally don't vote (regardless of the candidates) tend to be selfish. If half of a country or so doesn't vote then it means there are lots of selfish people. Before, I used to hear that people in the US didn't vote that much because the candidates were too similar, but since 2008 I don't think they've been very similar.
Stupid. And predicting a terrorist attack is stupid. A terrorist attack is predicted for everything - the Olympics, the World Cup, The European Championships, Eurovision... god forbid it happens, but its just stupidity predicting one.
I can defo see why it feels too long.
