Critical Approaches to Political Campaigning: The Difference between US and UK Politics

In the media, US politics are handled very differently to UK politics. In class we researched it and found some important facts about it. One of the main important things found out is that UK elections are a lot shorter and much more concise, lasting only a little over a month, where Americans can make their election last up to almost two years.
UK elections are, supposedly, cheaper and a much less personal experience. For example, the US will typically make their elections about the two leaders, i.e. Trump and Clinton, where the UK will make it more about the parties, i.e. Labour, Conservative, Lib-Dem, UKIP, etc.
US politicians are often advertised overly, with commercials showing up all over TV, while the UK has allotted time slots for a political advert, typically during a peak hour and on a news channel, as well as often being much shorter and concise.
All of this said, the US had developed the political debate idea originally, and the UK adapted the idea into their own, which shows that, clearly, both the UK and US have good systems in place, but they handle politics differently, with the UK making it about politics more-so than the US, who make it a very personal experience.
This video explains a lot of the differences best.