Parties, Elections, and Campaigns

Political Parties serve all these functions except....

• paying for all the candidates campaign

• monitoring officeholders

• educating

• recruiting

Which party rarely wins, acts as a spoiler, and introduce new ideas

• Republican

• Democrat

• Third Party

What are the two main political parties in the USA today?

• Republican and Whig

• Republican and Green Party

• Liberal and Conservative

• Republican and Democrat

Which of the following is a way that you evaluate Campaign messages....Identifying Propaganda, Separating fact from Opinion, and......

• analyzing election outcomes

• having debates

• recognizing bias

• making surveys

Internet blogs, television, social media, radio, newspapers, and magazines are examples of....

• mass media

• PACS

• Interest groups

• Lobbyists

Where along the political spectrum do parties try to win votes?

• Left

• Right

• Far Right

• Far Left

• Center

When evaluating this campaign poster for accuracy...what should a person do..

• Identify facts

• Identifying propaganda

• detect bias

• evaluate sources

Which statement would be most reliable?

• Mr. Beall will lower taxes for all Americans

• Mr. Devine is an honorable and honest man

• Mrs. Stevenson served 15 years in the US Air Force and four years in Congress

• Mrs. Ford cares more about Education than corporate America

PAC stands for

• Political Action Committee

• Politics, America, Citizens

• President, Analyzing, Congress

• People Against Communism

PACS

• Handle all of the communications for a candidate

• organize the candidates appointments

• are important for funding a candidate

• are unimportant