Political Parties and Mass Media

Complete the graph

• Helping Candidate win elections
• monitoring voting practices
• Voting for infirm supporters
• Helping monitor poll taxes

Where along the political spectrum do both political parties try to win votes in the graph

• 4
• 1
• 2
• 5

What is a fact?

• statements that can be proven
• statements that most of us believe
• all statements that are heard on political ads
• all statements on the internet

Mass media plays a role in elections by doing the following things except:

• writing editorials and publishing op-ed pieces and political cartoons
• broadcasting different points of view
• identifying candidates
• identifying propaganda

Strategies for evaluating campaign information include all of the following except?

• Separate fact from opinion
• evaluating the source
• detecting bias
• identifying the candidate

What has the largest effect on campaigns?

• the candidate's religion
• campaign speeches
• Someones looks
• Mass media

Political Parties do all of the following except:

• Nominate candidates
• Raise money for campaigns
• Monitor office holders
• Count the electoral vote

In order to win elections political parties:

• Appeal to the political center.
• Take the same position on issues as their opponents.
• Avoid all propaganda techniques.
• Try to attract only liberal voters.

Which of the following is NOT a major function of political parties? CE.5a

• nominating candidates
• educating voters on issues
• working the polls on Election Day
• campaigning for candidates to help win election

Sometimes a candidate for public office will be both liberal and conservative in
order to get a majority of voters to vote for him/her.

• False
• True