Democrats Take The Pole Position!
And other thoughts from this momentous news week.
Democrats Surge
Did President Biden decide to drop out earlier than this last Sunday, and just intentionally wait until after the RNC to announce it for maximum political advantage? Are Democrats capable of such good strategizing letting Republicans spend their whole convention arguing against a candidate they wouldn’t actually run against?
Whatever top Democrats’ intentions, how this primary season played out was Biden essentially protecting Harris from months of attacks for a sudden convention time, three-month blitz to election day. Maybe parties should do this more often, it seems pretty advantageous.
US Election Reform
Our elections are way too long. Candidates start seriously jockeying 2.5 years ahead of the election, which means we now spend more of our lives in election mode than not. Political parties used to always be decided at the convention, and it is a relatively modern development that our elections are so long and decided in primary elections.
France and the UK just had incredibly short elections, and their citizens were still capable of smart, strategic voting that somewhat accurately measured the opinions of the populace. Their democracies…
