Lobbyists can still lobby. They just wouldn't be able to have an effect on a campaign. This is about MONEY, not talking. Lobbyists need to depend on their arguments, not promises exacted because they can bundle more cash than the next guy. This is also not a left-right issue, but a budget issue. Even if we finance elections, I think we come out ahead monetarily, because our representitives don't have as many expensive promises to keep.
Maybe you have lobbyists confused with campaign donors who want to see their candidate elected. It's a different issue. The Supreme Court has ruled that money is speech and lefties have been whining about it ever since. Live with it. The Constitution says that the people have the right to petition the government. That's lobbying. Live with that too.
Those campaign donors, if they're average, don't have the clout of a few big guys. It's those big guys that are blowing up the deficit. I don't even think it's a left-right issue. We'll never know who really won, if the game is rigged. I think it would cost the public less in the long run to finance elections. And once again, I have absolutely nothing against petitioning the government. It's the bribery and added cost of government, that concerns me.
You actually think government financing of elections would work? Look how Social Security turned out. Incumbents would like nothing better than be in charge of financing their opponents campaigns. Meanwhile Americans would be forced to sit on the sidelines while hollywood slipped in some propaganda before the election or we see "trusted" news sources like CBS using forged documents to try to influence an election. The Supreme Court determined that money is speech and the 1st Amendment to the Constitution guarantees free speech. The teachers in Wisconsin called in sick and left their classrooms to riot in order to try to lobby the Wisconsin government by intimidation. Their actions were guaranteed by the 1st Amendment even if their conduct broke a couple of state rules. The problem with the left is that they want the 1st Amendment to be about rioting and occupying and burning the Flag but they want to silence everyone else.