Then they are not reporters of the news. They aren’t reporting all the news, or the facts. They are operating as just another public relations agent promoting specific causes. If they’re willing to lie, spin, twist, or ignore the other sides of an issue - They Ain’t New Reporters.
That’s good to know. Then you can’t lobby for any issue unless you’re being paid, or otherwise compensated. I guess that makes any unpaid person who lobbies a politician a “talker”? A person who lobbies but isn’t a lobbyist?
To answer the OP: no. In fact, in the latest poll, Trump’s favorability ratings in Iowa reversed - in may they were 27/63 and now they are 61/35.
Or, as Cillizza put it:
“That’s why I was SO certain of Trump’s inability to matter at all in the 2016 race when he, somewhat stunningly, decided to enter it 70-odd days ago. In the almost 20 years — gulp — I have spent following politics closer than close, I’ve never seen anything like the total reversal in how Trump is perceived by Republican voters. It is, quite literally, unprecedented.”
The point, as you only show that you are willfully missing, was that Trump is attracting and seeking support have a lot of poison that will be harder to pull out the longer Trump is ahead.
So keep up with your disdain because it is educational to many moderate Republicans and independents too, the remaining Hispanic Republicans and many other reasonable ones are paying attention to people like you and they are not going to remain in the “big tent”
It’s pretty much always been the case that the more people get to know Trump, the more they like him. I think we’re seeing that, at least in part, in Trump’s continued rise in approval polls. Another factor could be that people like to back a winner and Trump is looking more and more like a winner as time goes by.
I would maybe use the word “advocate”. A person can make an appointment with a legislator and advocate for certain things but he doesn’t have to register as a lobbyist (which was your original statement, "I’m surprised he doesn’t have to register as a lobbyist ") if they aren’t getting paid to do so.
Just so you do not become disappointed much later in the general, Those are Iowa caucus voters and are Republican. The latest poll from Iowa is showing Ben Carson just 5 points away from Trump. And in the latest Quinnipiac poll both Clinton and Sanders are ahead of him. (Clinton ahead by 16 points)
Can an advocate lobby (verb) a politician?
*lobby
verb
to try to persuade a politician, the government, or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed:
Small businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.
Local residents lobbied to have the factory shut down.
They have been lobbying Congress to change the legislation concerning guns.*
Do you honestly want to know the difference between a lobbyist and lobbying? Because they are terms with specific legal meanings that aren’t the same as how people often use them.
The point that you miss was that as much as democrats would had liked to have Trump in the general election we (and that we also refers to many moderate republicans) would prefer a less poisonous candidate, and you colossally missed that Clinton got up in the match up with Trump in the latest poll, to 16 points ahead of him.
You don’t have to register as a lobbyist in order to exercise your First Amendment rights of free speech and petitioning the government for redress of grievances.
I write and call my Congresscritters on occasion, and usually it’s not about stuff that affects me directly, so I’m certainly acting as an advocate for someone or something else when I do so. Am I supposed to register as a lobbyist when I do that?
Of course not. And the distinction is, nobody’s paying me to do so. I’m not hiring out my exceedingly limited influence to the highest bidder. (Jayne Cobb: “Ten percent of nothing is—let me do the math here. Nothing into nothin’. Carry the nothin’…”) So there’s no requirement that I register.
