• Draces@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Entire countries do it in 6 weeks when they know it’s happening well ahead of time and both candidates start campaigning 6 weeks ahead of time. That’s unfortunately not how US elections work.

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      6 hours ago

      That’s not how us elections work because that’s how the parties want us elections to work. Maybe more importantly that’s how the US media wants elections to work. It is easily doable though. Once more we all knew the election was coming and the convention hadn’t even happened yet. Easily enough time. Easily. They didn’t want it to happen.

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        4 hours ago

        Yes. If things worked differently then something different could have happened. What’s your point? How does anything you said relate to the reality of the position Biden left Dems in?

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          1 hour ago

          My point is the Democratic party chooses to run it this way. You can’t defend them by saying that’s the way it is, it’s the way it is because they want it that way. They choose it. They can change it whenever they want.

          So saying there wasn’t enough time is factually incorrect. There was enough time. Easily. They just chose not to do it. This is the position the Democrats wanted.

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            29 minutes ago

            Democrats do not make election laws. Those are an amalgamation of historic Federal and State policy. There are different requirements and deadlines per state to get on ballots. This isn’t about a single party. They did not have time to run a primary. That is a massive undertaking, printing the ballots alone requires significant forethought. If the laws were different maybe they would have had time but that’s totally irrelevant. We’re not playing Calvinball we’re talking about what could have happened.