Mass Media
The group that mass media usually reaches.
Who is the public?
Political parties help display the true opinions of this group of people.
Who are American citizens?
These are the individuals that interest groups have the goal of influencing.
Who are policymakers?
The electoral college decides this country-depended individual.
Who is the President?
This type of money is given directly to candidates where limits and regulations apply.
What is hard money?
This type of coverage focuses on polling data and public perception rather than candidate policies.
What is horse-race coverage?
Political parties do this for each public office and support them to win.
What is nominate?
The effective method of persuasion brings interest groups to schmooze up to candidates and convince them to side with their ideas.
What is lobbying?
In order to win, a candidate must earn this amount of electoral votes.
What is 270?
This amount is the limit of soft money that could be donated to candidates.
What is $1000?
More than $7 billion was used towards this candidate-relied media in the 2012 election.
What is advertising?
Parties must not only inform voters by their words, but ____ them as well.
What is inspire?
This occurs when interest groups take things to court to try and shift in their direction.
What is litigation?
These members of government come into place when there is a tie in elections.
Who is the House of Representatives?
Committee formed by businesses and corporations to make donations.
What are PACS?
This use of data takes 30 second sound clips used on tv to convey the message of an entire speech.
What is sound bites?
This provides background checks and ensures quality of a candidate.
What is a bonding agent?
Interest groups are capable of receiving political power by gaining this type of support.
What is public support?
This plan assured that each candidate gets the same percentage of electoral votes as popular votes.
What is the Proportional Plan?
Money obtained in Super PACS are given directly to them.
Who is the political party?
What is watchdog?
Most appointed positions of governing are based on this.
What is Partisanship-selection?
Political parties work to get candidates elected, while interest groups work to do this.
What is getting laws passed?
The Direct Popular Election plan gave the idea of depending on this group to select president.
Who is the citizens?
This commission has the purpose of overseeing and enforcing campaign finance regulations.
What is the Federal Election Commission?