I doubt that there's any other country in the world that spends almost an entire YEAR fighting a national election campaign! Only in the USA.

What a stupendous waste of time, money, and attention it is. Un-fucking-believable. It screws up one out of a president's every four years in office! Not what I call a good idea to do that. But it happens every four years, right on schedule.

Canadian multi-party election campaigns take 6 weeks. By law. And that's the whole danged campaign with ALL its permutations.