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Originally Posted by Carruthers
It's a difficult one to judge from this distance, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect that campaigning in the US proceeds at a relatively civilised rate until fairly near the election.
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It's not so much the rate as the pretense. My impression (also difficult to judge from the other side of this distance) is that while American politicians attempt to exude righteous outrage and holier-than-thou stances on everything, UK politicians are allowed/encouraged to get very directly nasty with one another. We have talking heads and pundits who can get bitchy, but for the most part it's a very choreographed dance on both sides.
We're a six-hour opera grinding through the motions, while you are a 30-second MMA fight where everyone's going to bleed.