Media
This is known as the watchdog and 4th branch of government.
What is media?
Political parties are a link between the public and the government.
What is the purpose of political parties?
FECA was adopted to regulate the raising and spending of money in US federal elections.
What was the purpose of FECA?
A function of the House of Representatives towards the presidential election.
What is the branch of government that votes for the president if the electoral college cannot?
Interest groups work by lobbying, electioneering, litigation, and gaining public support.
What is how interest groups affect public policy?
A tactic that politicians use to grant interviews on and off the record
Political parties work to get candidates elected.
What is the primary function of political parties?
Taxes are used to pay political candidates and parties.
What is public financing?
What is the proportional plan?
The organization or interest group with the most success in courts.
What is the National Rifle Association?
A reflection of how media works as a business.
What is media bias?
Parties use this method to focus on specific information that conforms with their current attitudes.
What is selective exposure?
An indirect contribution towards a campaign or political party that can be used without federal restriction.
What is soft money?
Five out of 46 elections, these candidates did not win.
What is the number of elections in which the candidate with the most individual votes did not win in the electoral college?
The organization that was founded in 1909 to decrease the lynching of black people in the US.
What is the NAACP?
The constitution protects the right of free press using this federal law.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Democrats and Republicans are always competing for seats in all branches of government.
What are the two major parties in the US?
Obama only used private donations towards his campaigns.
Who was the first president to refuse public financing?
January 20th
What is the last day to decide the winner of the Presidential election?
Interest groups donate to different parties in order to have support for their goals.
What is why political parties need interest groups?
The media makes certain topics to cover and others to leave out of the news.
What is a public agenda?
When one party controls the legislative branch and another controls the executive branch.
What is a divided government?
The first major amendment to the federal election campaign act that eliminated the increased use of soft money.
What is the McCain-Feingold Act?
The electoral college can give one candidate 538 votes.
What is the total number of electoral votes available?
Political advertising that is focused on political issues in a general way rather than candidates.
What is issue advocacy?