In the US it’s pretty much a full year and it’s fucking awful. We start seeing political ads for an election in November in the first couple months of the year, thought hey don’t really start pouring it on heavily until late spring/early summer. I really wish we’d just limit that shit to the calendar month of November.
More like continuous and never ending. It is fucking exhausting.
Lol you don’t need to explain how long the US election cycle lasts. The rest of the world is aware.
I don’t make assumptions like that, I just answer the question.
Fair enough, though in this case it feels like it’s not making assumptions, but showing unawareness of the one-way nature of American controlled media.
That’s fair. I imagine very few Americans pay much attention to foreign news. Personally I try to regularly check places like BBC, Al Jazeera, etc, but I know I’m an outlier there.
Norway here. Election campaigns are usually around a month, and they’re almost fully focused on parties and their platforms, as opposed to the representatives themselves.
So do you vote for a party then? And the party head may or may not be changed?
Kind of, yeah. We vote for parties, and the parties (yes, plural) with the most votes build a coalition that have enough of the votes between them to form a government. And the head honchos like prime minister and similar, are usually the party leaders. If they were to die or quit or whatever, the government agrees on a replacement.
In Spain the campaign starts 15 days before the election day and ends at the 00 hours of the day before the election. The day before the election is called “reflexion day” and is illegal to run campaign ads or have any event.
Election day is always on a Sunday.
That’s gotta be the world’s shortest. How do people get to know the politicians and their platforms in that time?
There’s a period of pre-campaign were they can’t run ads but they start appearing in media more than usual. Everyone knows the parties anyway, and more or less what each stands for.
