2016 Postmortem

This particular campaign was unusually miserable, but regardless, it's ridiculous to have these things drag on for up to two years. Nobody benefits from these marathons except media outlets who sell advertising spots. Limit the primaries to maybe five months, beginning with the candidates' announcements of their candidacies and ending with the conventions; and then no more than four months for the GE. Get it all done and over with in nine months. In England, campaigning for parliamentary elections is limited to about a month, which probably isn't enough time for our much larger country, but both the duration and the expense of our election campaigns is just ridiculous.