When you're a candidate for an elected political office, unless you've previously been professionally involved in politics, you are a politician only in a very limited sense. You're more of an apprentice politician, like someone studying to be a butcher, baker or candlestick maker. But really, a more apt analogy would be he's interviewing for the job.If you're not a politician when you're running for president then what are you? He's been running for a year and a half. What do you have to run for 2 years before your a politician?