how to become a politician?

[CPUd]

You should go ahead and run for Governor. I read somewhere that race was wide open.

 

[jmdrake]

For someone young in there low 20s...is there any hope for a political career?

Where can I find more information on this? Where do I start? No one in my family is a politician and I don't have any connections...

I am a born leader, people call me a politician all the time, I am very likable etc.

I think I looked into this before and I came to the conclusion to where you need money to start so I gave up. My friend's dad ran for Florida house district and he is just someone's dad...ya know? Random people I run into are running for something...I want to be the one running one day.

appreciate any help

Expand your circle of friends, especially among people much older than you. (They vote). Go to community meetings. Volunteer for other people's campaigns. Whether the campaign is successful or not you will learn something. Find out when the county party meetings are and attend. Ask intelligent questions and get yourself known. Find out the easy races to run in. Usually there's some small race that gets little attention where either the republican or the democrat is running unopposed. Find some race like that, get the required signatures and run. The local party leadership will be happy you did and may even give you some modicum of support.

Now, if we as a movement were on our "a-game" we in off years "micro-moneybomb" (cluster-money-bomb?) people like you to give you an advantage is these small races. Really they can be won with enough signs, enough door knocks, robocalls (yes robocalls work and they are better than relying on voluteers to make calls) and maybe a few radio spots.

 

[jmdrake]

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[jbauer]

yes I DO need to familiarize myself with the local political landscape. Pls help on this if you or anybody else can.

You could start here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en

Gives great tips on how to use Google.com

From there you can find out your city/county meetings. There will be a list of who's currently elected. Then, look up the times for the meetings. Go to them. Volunteer.

 

[jbauer]

Or here this is a great tool:http://www.giyf.com/

 

[kingtut]

Its good when somebody sees some wrongs that need to be righted, some policies that need to be implemented, some values that need to be pushed... and THEN becomes a politician because that the way to get them done.

The OP seems to be going about it backward. Lots of talk about how to be a politician as if that's the end goal, but nary a mention of why.
He'll do well, I suppose.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Its good when somebody sees some wrongs that need to be righted, some policies that need to be implemented, some values that need to be pushed... and THEN becomes a politician because that the way to get them done.

The OP seems to be going about it backward. Lots of talk about how to be a politician as if that's the end goal, but nary a mention of why.
He'll do well, I suppose.

Well. I don't know. OP didn't give the impression that it was his end goal. At least not that I can see. That's a good question you bring up, though. Too often we want to talk about changing things but we don't always say what it is that we will attempt to change specifically. I suppose this is the difference between just trying to get elected and trying to change the course of history. These are to com pletely different phenomenon that shouldn't be just thought of in the same context.