Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change
Balthazar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Because the date of the election is known in the US, the entire 18 months leading up to the election is all about the election. You don’t want the political exhaustion that goes with that.
Joshi@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
The US has a weird political culture in a lot of ways. I know France and Germany have fixed term lengths and I certainly don’t get the impression that they have that problem.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
My perception, based on the election cycles I followed, is that, in Europe, the campaign period tends to be bigger when it becomes clear there will be early elections.
For normal elections the campaign period is usually about 1 month. And for early elections there’s the entire dance around bringing the government down for a few weeks, and then everyone will be on full campaign mode until the election.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
We already have parties getting into campaign mode way earlier than 1 month. The election probably won’t be until May, but there’s already a strong sense that they’re in campaign mode.