Module 6 Elections & Campaigns Vocab Review

What is the term for an organized group of people with at least roughly similar political ideas and opinions?

• political party

• party platform

• candidate

• representative

What is the term for a document or website with all of a political party's views and ideas on topics?

• party platform

• political party

• candidate

• representative

Where would you go to look up the views and opinions of the Republican party?

• party platform

• election

• bias

• interest group

What is a representative?

• someone chosen by the people to make laws and decisions according to the people's wants

• someone running for office

• someone that has an interest in something and wants to influence a politician

• a one-sided opinion

What is the term for someone chosen by the people through voting to make laws and decisions for them; they are supposed to listen and vote according to the people's wants?

• representative

• candidate

• interest group

• political party

What is the term for someone running to become a representative?

• election

• political party

• candidate

• lobbying

When someone wants to become a representative, they first have to run during an election and have people vote for them. What would you call this person while they are running for office?

• candidate

• bias

• interest group

• lobbying

What is the term for a process in which citizens cast their votes for the candidates who they wish to become their representatives?

• election

• political party

• party platform

• lobbying

What is the term for when someone has prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another; one-sided view?

• bias

• propaganda

• interest group

• candidate

You want people like jurors and judges to be fair when making decisions. You don't want them to have ____.

• bias

• lobbying

• interest group

• propaganda