• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    15 days 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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      14 days 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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      15 days 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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      15 days 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.

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      14 days 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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        14 days 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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          14 days ago

          I dunno what most people are like in America anymore but there’s at least a hefty portion that get their news via social media apps and side sources.

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      14 days ago

      It is true, election cycles are much shorter in other countries but that’s just not the case in the US. There’s a saying that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Trump has been in the news with his bat shit crazy rhetoric for years now. That’s hard to defeat in just a few months. Especially when his base is so fanatical they will vote for him even if he killed someone.

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      14 days ago

      Dude this is America, it takes us four months to shop for Christmas gifts. Spikes in “did Joe Biden drop out?” happened on search engines during November 5th. We’re idiots.

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        14 days ago

        To be fair, that also included variants like “when did Joe Biden drop out?” Obviously, people are idiots, but that was at least somewhat misleading.