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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Things just got reeeeeeaaaallllly interesting. Who will the candidate be? Harris? And who will their running mate be? So close to the election... when will this rollercoaster end?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Harris is the only candidate that has access to the existing campaign funds. As AOC pointed out, there are only eight weeks until early voting ballots are sent out. That’s not enough time for someone else to fundraise and run a successful campaign unless the candidate is independently wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How do other countries have such short election cycles?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In a lot of countries, heads of state are derived from parliament, so people vote for parties and platforms rather than people. The fixation on individuals is a bit of a weird quirk of the US system.

In France they also elect their president directly, but it is not exactly a short election cycle, with two rounds of elections: If no candidate receives 50% of the vote in the first round, the two candidates leading the race advance to a second stage and people have to vote all over again. And then the new president generally dissolves the parliament, unleashing two new elections with a similar procedure on the more local level.

I am so happy to be voting in proportional representation systems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Reliable news publications and actively informed voters would be my guess.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's going to be Harris.

But I hope it's someone else.

I don't have anything against Kamala and I think she'd be better than Biden. But democrats really need someone they can get excited about. Not having that is why they lost 2016, and why 2020 was as close as it was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fortunately Biden is the one candidate that can possibly make people excited about Kamala. Now it's up to her to not completely fuck it up... which unfortunately is not a given seeing how badly the debates went

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Probably Nov 5th

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't know yet. Still trying to read what was said. I hope they leave it open to the delegates to decide at the convention.