Identify the Interest Group Strategy
The NRA informs Congressman Morales that armed citizens prevent one million crimes each year and also tell them that 86% of their constituents oppose gun control.
What interest group strategy?
Lobbying congress/providing technical information/promising votes
What is winning elections?
This is political socialization.
What is "the process of obtaining your political beliefs?"
This is the definition of a third party.
What is "any political party that is not democratic or republican?"
This is who could participate in a closed democratic primary.
What is "Democrats?"
What interest group strategy?
What is "litigation?"
These are three ways that political parties act as linkage institutions.
What is "registering people to vote, informing/educating people about elections, helping people run for office, and helping people shape policy once they've been elected?"
What are "family, media, peers, environment, education, socioeconomic circumstances?:
This is why third parties struggle to win Congressional elections.
What is the "winner-take all system, where candidates need to win a plurality of votes in district to win a seat in Congress?
This is who can participate in an open Republican primary.
What is "democrats, republicans, independents, and third party members (all eligible voters)"?
The National Association of Teachers is proud to support Mr. Morales as he runs for Congress. He has been a tireless advocate for those in the teaching profession.
What interest group strategy?
What is "endorsement?"
This is the last time a party other than the Democrats or Republicans has won the presidency.
What is "1848?"
This is the most powerful agent of political socialization.
What is "family?"
This is why third parties struggle to win electoral votes.
This is who decides a party's nominee for a general election under the current weak party system.
What is "the party's voters?"
The NAACP gathers a group of one million people to march on Washington DC in opposition to a recent voter suppression law.
What interest group strategy?
What is "protest/grassroots lobbying?"
Name three criteria of a valid poll.
What is "reported or low sampling error, random sample, representative sample, unbiased questions, adequate sample size."
This is two reasons why third parties struggle to win votes in any sort of election.
What is "lack of media attention, belief by voters that they cannot win, major party resources, lack of fundraising, lack of experience in government?"
This is who used to decide a party's nominee for a general election under the strong party system.
What is "a small group of party leaders?"
A consumer protection group meets with the president and the EPA over plans on how to implement new regulation around lead paint.
What interest group strategy?
What is "lobbying the executive/bureaucracy
This is how the decline of the caucus has positively impacted democracy.
What is "increased voter turnout leading to more moderates voting, leading to more moderate candidates being selected, leading to less gridlock and more bipartisanship/legislation being passed and laws signed?"
This is why you shouldn't trust a poll that is conducted online and open to anyone or a poll that is given to people entering a grocery store
What is "the poll is not random (not everyone in the country has an equal chance of being selected) or representative (the people selected for the poll may not mirror the US population as a whole)?"
Name one way that third parties influence our democracy without winning elections and name an example.
What is "influencing policy. Third party candidates gain votes advocating for legal marijuana, so the democrats controlling congress pass a bill legalizing marijuana to attract those voters in the next election?"
"influencing party platforms. Third party candidates gain votes advocating for legalizing mushrooms, so the democrats adjust their party platform to call for the legalization of mushrooms."
These are two ways a caucus is different from a primary.
What is "public voting, debate, lower voter turnout, and a multiple hour commitment?"