The US "election cycle" is insane. You don't need to be running a candidate over a year before the election. 3 months is more than enough time to tell people who your candidate is and what they are running on, and you have more than 3 months.
Yes, it would have been better to announce earlier, but jesus christ he is too fucking old for this shit. Stepping back now is still better than pushing through.
The longer the cycle is made, the more people can be distracted from the actual politics and the more it matters who gets the most money.
Especially with how calcified the voting population is. Each candidate has something like a 44% floor of people who already know they're going to vote for "the Democratic candidate" and the only question is how many of them actually go to the polls and what the remaining randos decide. And only in a handful of swing states. Most of the system is already predetermined.
Bro, we start selling a Christmas decorations in July in the US. People need to be making money off this shit.
You can't just launder $2B of campaign contributions overnight. You need a year or two to filter it credibly through pundits, consultants, pollsters, and advertisers.
Basically, you can
I agree the timeframe isn’t the main issue. It’s more concerning that the nominee isn’t getting selected through the primaries/caucuses where actual voters are involved in choosing the nominee.
Well now we have an old fascist, convicted felon, geezer that has no business running the country.
The US "election cycle" is insane. You don't need to be running a candidate over a year before the election. 3 months is more than enough time to tell people who your candidate is and what they are running on, and you have more than 3 months.
Yes, it would have been better to announce earlier, but jesus christ he is too fucking old for this shit. Stepping back now is still better than pushing through.
The longer the cycle is made, the more people can be distracted from the actual politics and the more it matters who gets the most money.
Especially with how calcified the voting population is. Each candidate has something like a 44% floor of people who already know they're going to vote for "the Democratic candidate" and the only question is how many of them actually go to the polls and what the remaining randos decide. And only in a handful of swing states. Most of the system is already predetermined.
Bro, we start selling a Christmas decorations in July in the US. People need to be making money off this shit.
You can't just launder $2B of campaign contributions overnight. You need a year or two to filter it credibly through pundits, consultants, pollsters, and advertisers.
Basically, you can
I agree the timeframe isn’t the main issue. It’s more concerning that the nominee isn’t getting selected through the primaries/caucuses where actual voters are involved in choosing the nominee.
Well now we have an old fascist, convicted felon, geezer that has no business running the country.