American Politics Vocab

A series of actions intended to accomplish a goal

• campaign

• caucus

• interest group

• conservative

committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates

• liberal

• conservative

• lobbyist

• Political Action Committee (PAC)

open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

• Political Action Committee (PAC)

• campaign

• liberal

• conservative

holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion

• bias

• propaganda

• liberal

• conservative

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

• bias

• platform

• propaganda

• campaign

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• bias

• propaganda

• platform

• campaign

a person running for political office

• campaign

• candidate

• conservative

• liberal

A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.

• candidate

• campaign

• lobbyist

• platform

A document stating the aims and principles of a political party

• campaign

• lobbyist

• platform

• propaganda

To select and name candidates to run for public office

• campaign

• candidate

• nominate

• bias