• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Kamala Harris was given an assignment that no other person in American history was given — to construct a presidential campaign in 90-100 days with absolutely no expectation or anticipation that she would be called to that assignment

    Canada’s federal election process is 36-50 days, or half that.

    I agree with most of what was written, but I wanted to point out that countries put forth a scalable platform every 4-5 years in half the time. It’s a bag-drive, but it’s the timeline.

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      9 hours ago

      Before Last Week Tonight, John Oliver was on a podcast called The Bugle and I can remember him bemoaning how long US elections were compared to Britain. I wonder how he feels about covering our bullshit all the time now, I imagine similar to the exhaustion that led Jon to mostly retire

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      7 hours ago

      Tbf, Canada has like 15% the population, mostly in a smaller amount of areas. The US has more states than Canada has major cities.

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        5 minutes ago

        We have mass media, you can scale that up. It’s not like Trudeau had to meet everyone in person to get elected.

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      12 hours ago

      If all candidates are on the same timeline then I agree. That’s not the case here. 100 days vs literal years of planning.

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      11 hours ago

      Yes and no, the official campaign is a month and a half but the campaign starts way before that. Also the leaders are chosen way ahead of the campaign, Harris became the candidate 3 months ahead of the election.