How many politicians have you met?

[TheSaint250]

I've met Marco Rubio, a few state representatives-elect, a state senator-elect, and a guy named David Larsen who tried to primary Leonard Lance in 2014 and 2016.

Also, I've seen, but never personally met and talked to, Donald Trump and Francis Rooney.

EDIT: Forgot to add Ben Carson (on the day that RCP's average poll aggregator had him as the frontrunner, November 4) and a local mayor.

[MarkD]

Jim Talent. Several state legislators (too many to count).

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Adam Putnam (2017)
Halsey Beshears (2016)
Dan Bongino (2016)
Matt Gaetz (2016)
Katherine Pasidomo (2016)
Ron Paul (2016) (via telephone)
Donald freaking Trump (2015)
Lindsey Graham (2015)
Ben Carson (2015)
Gary Johnson (2012)
Adam Hasner (2012)
Tim Pawlenty (2012)
Marco Rubio (2010)
Allen West (2010)
Claude Kirk (2010)
Rudy Giuliani (2007)

[The Govanah Jake]

-Chuck Schumer at Oyster Bay Festival
- Ed Mangano at my little siblings graduation from kindergarten ceremony
- Tom Suozzi at a speech
-To many to count amount of local legislatures and council members and state senators seen throughout Long Island and New York State
Seen - Donald Trump at Rally, Bernie Sanders at Rally. 

[America Needs R'hllor]

Oren Hazan, the most outrageous Israeli MK, represented Likud in my school's election pannel in 2015. Ever since then, we jokingly claim that we've basically discovered him as a mess

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Met:

Presidential Candidates:
Ted Cruz
Ben Carson
Scott Walker
Carly Fiorina
Jim Gilmore
Rick Perry
Rick Santorum
Herman Cain
Rand Paul
Newt Gingrich

Other Members of Congress:
Bob Corker
Lamar Alexander
Marsha Blackburn
Diane Black
Jim DeMint
Jason Smith
Jim Jordan

More Major Political/Quasi-Political Figures:
Kelli Ward
Jesse Watters
Eric Bolling
Ken Bone
Art Laffer
David French
Dinesh D'Souza
Katie Pavlich
Ryan T. Anderson
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Sheriff David Clarke
Milo Yiannopoulos
Grover Norquist
Reince Priebus
Andrew Napolitano

Additional Major Politicians I have heard speak in person but haven't met (partial list, obviously):
Donald Trump
Mike Pence
Barack Obama
Marco Rubio
Jeb Bush
Bill Haslam
Sarah Palin
Paul Ryan
John Boehner
Rudy Giuliani

[Crumpets]

Only counting ones I actually met/shook hands with/talked to

- John Huntsman when he came to speak at my university - only one I really had a quality conversation with
- Caroline Kennedy at a book signing
- Jim McDermott at an election party in 2012
- Ed Murray at the Sounders MLS cup parade
- Former Georgian MP Giorgi Targamadze at a think tank in Tbilisi
- George Nethercutt at a "leadership conference" in DC
- Various Seattle City Council people and Washington state legislators

Plus some random non-politician politicos: Chris Matthews, Valerie Plame (super nice), Trevor Noah, George Will, Candy Crowley, Thomas Countryman, Barry McCaffrey

[kyc0705]

I don't know if this makes sense for a political forum, but politicians don't interest me enough for me to set out time to see them.

[The Other Castro]

-John Kerry
-Hillary Clinton
-Bernie Sanders
-Martin O'Malley
-Ted Cruz
-Chuck Schumer
-Chris Murphy
-John McCain
-Richard Blumenthal
-Rand Paul
-Rick Santorum
-Mike Huckabee
-Angus King
-Dan Malloy
-Jim Himes
-Rosa DeLauro
-Ben Ray Lujan
-Bobby Jindal
-Bill Nelson
-Al Franken
-Paul Ryan
-Joaquin Castro
-Keith Ellison
-Pete Buttigieg
-Joe Kennedy III

I'm probably forgetting a bunch of others that I can't think of at the moment. The funniest politician I've met has definitely been John McCain.

[RFayette]

Pete Ricketts at a Science Olympiad national tournament

That's it, other than a few local ones.

[Lachi]

Suzannah Sheed (I-Shepparton)
That's it...

[TheSaint250]

Holy crap where do you guys go to meet these people? I wanna go

[Enduro]

0, and let's keep it that way. Don't want their germs on me.

[The Other Castro]

Holy crap where do you guys go to meet these people? I wanna go

Work in politics, you meet a lot of people (especially in DC).

[MAINEiac4434]

Mike Michaud, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Colin Van Ostern, Ann McLane Kuster, John Baldacci, Chellie Pingree, Diane Russell, Betsy Sweet, countless state legislators.

[Lord Wreath]

This probably means nothing to non-Australians but...

Scott Morrison, Federal Treasurer of Australia (LPA-Cook) (he's my local MP )
Mark Speakman, NSW Attorney-General (LPA-Cronulla) (again, my local MP)

Additionally, I've worked in the office of David Coleman MP (LPA-Banks) and seen him numerous times, though we've never personally exchanged words.

What an exhaustive list!

[RC (a la Frémont)]

Sadly, only 2.
State Senator Joe Markley (R-CT, 2013)
Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH, 2017)

[Hoosier_Nick]

Took pictures with 90% of them... Will prove if anyone requests.

Federal Politicians:
Bill Clinton (At a campaign rally in Lansing the weekend before the election)
Hillary Clinton (At a campaign rally in Cincinnati on Halloween 2016)
Donald Trump (At a campaign rally in Cincinnati post-election)
Mike Pence (This summer at a fundraiser in Indianapolis and also at the Cincinnati rally)
Steve Bannon (lol.... also at a rally in Cincinnati)

U.S. Senators:
Heidi Heitkamp (Met her while in D.C. since my uncle was friends with her so she knew my family... we had a long, awesome convo)
Al Franken (At a meet-and-greet while in D.C.)
Ted Cruz (At a campaign rally in Lebanon, Indiana)
Roy Blunt (While in D.C. I ran across him)
Tammy Duckworth (Ran into while in D.C.)
Todd Young (Met while in D.C. and also at a campaign rally in Bloomington, IN)
Joe Donnelly (Dozens of times, partially because I volunteer for him so he comes by a lot.)
Debbie Stabenow (Met at the Bill Clinton rally in Lansing)
Sherrod Brown (Met at a meet-and-greet in D.C.)
Joe Manchin (Randomly came across while in D.C., had a long convo about blue dogs and preserving the party. Also I was with my twin so we talked about his grandson twins)
Bernie Sanders (4 times... first was at a campaign rally in Akron, OH, second was I randomly walked onto an elevator with him in D.C., third was at a book signing in Chicago where he signed my copy of 'Our Revolution', fourth was at the Good Jobs Nation rally in Indianapolis on Monday )
Elizabeth Warren (Randomly came across in D.C.)
Chris Murphy (Randomly came across in D.C)

US House:
Tony Cardenas (He is my best friend's representitve so I met him in D.C)
Andre Carson (Met tons of times)
Susan Brooks (Met tons of times)
Tulsi Gabbard (Met in D.C.)
Justin Amash (Brother is a big fan, so we met him in D.C.)

State politicians:
Evan Bayh (Met multiple times)
Eric Holcomb (Met him at the governor debate at my High School where I interviewed him)
John Gregg (Interviewed and met at multiple campaign rallies)
Rex Bell (Also interviewed and met)
Pete Buttigieg (Met at an Indiana Democrats event
Jason Kander (e-mailed back and forth post-election)
Joe Hogsett (Multiple times at Indiana Democrats events)
Glenda Ritz (Also at Indiana Democrats events)
Also a lot of state senators and representatives since I used to do things at the capitol, but those are all the main ones.

Also this has all been done in 1 year, wish me luck trying to meet every President

[kyc0705]

wish me luck trying to meet every President

Some of them are dead, you know.

[SATW]

This probably means nothing to non-Australians but...

Scott Morrison, Federal Treasurer of Australia (LPA-Cook) (he's my local MP )
Mark Speakman, NSW Attorney-General (LPA-Cronulla) (again, my local MP)

Additionally, I've worked in the office of David Coleman MP (LPA-Banks) and seen him numerous times, though we've never personally exchanged words.

What an exhaustive list!

Nice, that's awesome!

[The Dowager Mod]

A lot, The first one I ever met was Benjamin Gilman a Congressman from NY.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Lots of local ones, 1 senator, and muon2

[Classic Conservative]

Seen:
Donald J. Trump
Tom Price
Rick Perry
Mitt Romney
John Sununu
Rudy Giuliani

On Stage for a Rally with:
Scott Brown
Richard Tisei

Had Lunch With:
Ted Cruz
Bill O'Brien (NH Speaker of House)
Marilinda Garcia

Had Conversations With:
Rick Tyler (Cruz Communications Guy/MSNBC Contributor)
Mike Enzi (The guy gave me a coin that has the Eagle Scout logo and on the other side the seal of Wyoming)
Chris Collins
French Hill
G.T. Thompson
Little Marco
Little Marco's Kids
Pete Sessions
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial)
Kelly Ayotte
John McCain
Ovide Lamontange
Various amounts of state representatives and state senators from across New England
All of the local politicians in my area

[JA]

None, thank god

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

Met Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) at a picnic event at our school. Bernie Sanders also came to our school, though I didn't see him in person (I did see him speak in a nearby building, however).