GROUPS
NRA
What is the National Rifle Association?
Radio, TV, Internet
What is Electronic Media?
Who is the USDA?
Public Opinion is often referred to as
What is Direction, Intensity and stability?
What is an endorsement?
They have too much to say about government
What are Interest Groups?
False information that can hurt someone
What is libel?
When the term "lobbyist" was first used?
When was the 1830's?
Levels of government that lobbyists operate
What is local, state and national?
A specialist whose job is to conduct polls regularly
What is a pollster?
Promotes the interest of older people
What is AARP?
To profit
What is to benefit?
Polls in which the questions are worded so as to influence a person's response one way or the other
What is a push poll?
Television, newspapers, magazines, recordings, movies, internet websites and books
What is mass media?
Free flow of information and ideas
What a democracy requires to thrive?
The largest interest group
What is the US Chamber of Commerce?
Newspapers, magazines, newsletters and books
What is print media?
Right to assemble peaceably
What is the first admendment?
Groups that can influence our government
What are citizens, the media and special interest groups?
Lobbyists most important resource
What is information?
National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
What is the NAACP?
A plan of what you are going to do
What is an agenda?
Politicians secretly pass on information to friendly reporters
What is a leak?
Private medium means of communication
What is a private letter, text, email?
Support of the public to carry out presidential programs and the support of congress
What are items of support the president needs?
To the right
What are republicans?
Impartial group that educates voters about candidates and issues
What is a public interest group?
A person who takes part in an organized attempt to influence legislators
Who is a lobbyist?
Men, women of all ages, incomes, races and viewpoints
What are conditions of random samples?
Government waste or corruption
What journalists are eager to expose?
NOW
What is the National Organization for Women?
The media
What is a watch dog?
To the left
Who are democrats?
Voting, protesting, attending civic meetings, run for office
What are ways to influence the government?
Government censorship of material before it is published
What is prior restraint?
They regulate Interest groups
Who is the Federal Government?
To watch or keep an eye on something
What is monitoring?
Organizations that raise money privately to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level
Who are political action committees?
Who hired them, how much they are being paid and how they spend their money related to their work
What lobbyists have to disclose to the government?
Request individuals answer questions in a survey
What is a public opinion poll?