Political Parties
How our positions on different issues are developed.
A way to select a president that is based on the state's population.
What is the electoral college?
Their goal is to educate the public and elect candidates who support their cause.
What is an Interest Group?
It includes radio, TV, magazines, the internet, and newspapers.
What is Media?
He used to be this school's science teacher.
Who is Mr. Shoup?
Laws that govern our American society.
What is a Public Policy?
What are elections?
Their job is to keep interest group members informed about legislative proposals that affect the goals of the interest group.
What is a lobbyist?
Allows media to filter or alter the way it presents a news story.
What is gatekeeping?
It's a place across from Mason County Eastern Middle/High School.
Groups of people who join together to advance their beliefs through winning office and making laws.
What are political parties?
They offer citizens a collection of viewpoints or opinions of how the government and our society should be governed.
What is a party platform?
They make the subject of a lawsuit through the judicial branch.
What is litigation?
They bring the public’s attention to any wrongdoing or problems that arise in industry, government, or environment.
What is a Watchdog?
He's across the hallway and teaches high school math.
Who is Mr. Arce?
Our nation’s first two parties who were split over the federal government’s scope of power.
Who were the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
Allows voters to select which party’s primary they wish to participate in on the day of the election.
What is an Open Primary?
When interest group members campaign on behalf of a candidate who supports their stance on an issue.
What is Electioneering?
Using the radio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to Americans in their living room.
What were the Fireside Chats?
What are the school's colors?
A cartoonist who developed the idea of using the donkey and the elephant for political parties.
Who is Thomas Nast?
Party members gather in predetermined locations at predetermined times to discuss the pros and cons of each party’s candidate.
What is a Caucus?
These are used when the interest group is neither the plaintiff nor the defendant in the case, but will be affected by the outcome.
They heralded the central role television has in the democratic process.
What was the Kennedy-Nixon Debate?
They cheer their home team on.
Who is the Cardinal Mascot?