Sheryl Crow Wants To Drastically Shorten the Election Season

[stopbush]

She was just on "With All Due Respect."

Thinks it's way too long, that we're not learning anything about the candidates, blah blah.

Makes me wonder: considering the kid glove approach the media took with Trump for the first 14 months of the campaign, would they ever get around to a serious look at such a candidate were the election limited to a 6-month period? I very much doubt it.

[ObamaKerryDem]

1. ...That's what I worry about too, when I consider this..

..I like Sheryl (love her music!) but I am not sure I can agree with her here. Too much of a chance of someone like Trump peaking at just the right time and running away with it, especially if left unchecked by the media. This is what we have seen happen in various Special Elections (Scott Brown comes to mind in Massachusetts or even arguably Chris Christie). I think that while there are certainly needed adjustments like getting rid of Citizen's United, etc we need this process, especially considering the way our campaigns and partisan political system is set up.

[frazzled]

3. Everybody had the goods on him from Day 1

Both the campaigns and the media. And he was acting crazy, nasty, mean from the beginning of the primaries. They were holding their hands close and mouths shut until the right moment--the Clinton campaign because, damn, they wanted to run against this insane person; the media because, doh, they make money and get viewers every day the campaign goes on.

He could have been KO'd much sooner in a shorter election season if anybody had wanted to.

I'm not a Sheryl Crow fan at all (I used to cover my ears when she came on--don't know why, just find her music grating). But I agree with her on this.

[ObamaKerryDem]

4. That's a fair point...

...A shorter season would definitely have to rely upon such a candidate being KO'd in time. I have little doubt Trump still would've been by the Clinton campaign - but other, weaker campaigns would tend to worry me in such a scenario.

Arguments to be made for sure on both sides, though and would certainly be an interesting chance of pace!

[ffr]

2. Good point. $$$ Revenue is the primary answer. They're in the business to turn a profit.

So they must do everything possible to keep any race a horse race. They will manufacture any story and keep it alive for as long as people are willing to eat the slop they are dishing out.

[ObamaKerryDem]

5. All too true! n/t

[Blue Idaho]

6. Tasks expand and contract to fit the time available.

Nowhere else in the free world are there perpetual election seasons like we have in America. I'm all in favor of a 60 to 90 day election cycle. Maybe if our legislators weren't constantly campaigning they might actually get work done in congress.

[JRLeft]

7. I agree with her, we need that and 100% publicly financed elections.