People want the news as quickly as possible. > Elections are usually in November, winners take office in January. Plenty of time to sort it out if there's a qu

People want the news as quickly as possible. > Elections are usually in November, winners take office in January. Plenty of time to sort it out if there's a question. This is an issue as you reach larger offices in particular the presidency where there's an entire transition process that has to happen where the incoming president has to pull together the team to run the state and get read into all the various secret programs so that day 1 they're ready to run the country.