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There is NO WAY to succinctly answer this question. I'm really sorry. But there's not.

There are thousands, if not tens of thousands or more. There are so many different political and elected positions. The President and Vice President of the United States are politicians. The governor of your State is also. So are your Senators and your Representatives in Congress. The mayor of your town is a politician. So are your elected school board members and county council members. Any person influencing group opinions in his or her favor can be termed a politician. Not to mention law enforcement officers, such as sheriffs, and many state and local judges are elected or appointed officials.

This is just counting the people who manage to get elected. Anyone who runs for an elected office or has previously held any such office would also be a politician. And that's not even thinking about appointed political players or influencers- such as those who serve in the President's Cabinet like Hillary Clinton, or the White House Chief of Staff Pete Rouse, or the President's many senior aides. And that is all on the national scale. Every state, city, town and borough have similar systems.

Just off of the top of my head- US Congress consisting of 100 Senators, 435 Representatives, and 6 Non-voting members. 50 state Governors, 1200 Mayors in the United States Conference of Mayors which is only cities with populations of 30,000 or more. That's almost 1800 right there.

How many members sit on a given school board? How about City Council? There are 253 members of Pennsylvania's State General Assembly. I don't know how many gubernatorial seats there are in other states. How many political programs are in the White House alone?

The following entities exist within the Executive Office of the President:

Council of Economic Advisers

Council on Environmental Quality

National Security Council and Homeland Security Council

Office of Administration

Office of Management and Budget

Office of National Drug Control Policy

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Office of the United States Trade Representative

Office of the Vice President

Executive Residence

In addition, the following entities exist within The White House:

Office of Cabinet Affairs

Office of the Chief of Staff

Office of Communications

Communications

Media Affairs

New Media

Research

Speechwriting

Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy

Office of the First Lady

Office of the Social Secretary

Office of Health Reform

National Security Advisor

Office of Legislative Affairs

Office of Management and Administration

White House Personnel

White House Operations

Telephone Office

Visitors Office

Oval Office Operations

Office of Political Affairs

Office of Presidential Personnel

Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs

Office of Public Engagement

Council on Women and Girls

Office of Intergovernmental Affairs

Urban Affairs

Office of the Press Secretary

Office of Scheduling and Advance

Office of the Staff Secretary

Presidential Correspondence

Executive Clerk

Records Management

Office of the White House Counsel

Office of White House Policy

Domestic Policy Council

Office of National AIDS Policy

Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Office of Health Reform

Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation

National Economic Council

White House Military Office

All are led by politicians, overseen by politicians and run by politicians and people in politics. The only reasonable conclusion is that there's a lot of Politicians in the United States.

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About half a million persons hold elected state and local offices.

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More than are willing to admit it.

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