Contemporary Political Reforms in a Multi Party Democracy

 Almost all Americans who are aware at all about politics have some kind of opinion about the issues of lobbying, interest groups, and campaign financing. As usual, it gets complicated, but there are some things to remember when thinking about how it might work in a multi party presidential republic. First, let's try defining some terms.  A lobbyist is a kind of person whose profession it is is to convince other people to support other things using the latter's power and authority. They usually for it for pay although sometimes do it pro bono, IE for free for some varying reason like personally being really interested in the subject, being able to put it on their resume in the future, or otherwise, although normally they would be paid if someone already had a good resume and didn't have a personal fascination or care for the topic. Lobbying is just the verb form of their profession, which some people might associate with the oldest profession.  An interest group is any grou

 Americans often have pride in the idea of America being a federal state, one where sovereignty is directly vested from the people in both the federal and state governments and prize decentralization.  Given the true vastness of America, 330 million people, the fourth largest country in the world with 9.8 million square kilometres or 3.8 million square miles, fifty states, ranging from the population of Wyoming, to the median of about 4,558,234 people, and a median area of 151,953 sq km or 57,093 sq miles, each with so many different cultures, many with strong minority languages besides English, and their respective histories, this is likely for the best.  Good reforms have come at the state level, but often, people see their states anymore as politically competitive and have less trust that they will follow the will of their people. Ballotpedia has a map of trifectas, where the same party controls both houses of the state legislature (or the state senate in the case of Nebraska, alway