Politics Vocabulary Review

Showing favoritism toward or against someone or something -

• editorial

• moderate

• bias

Misleading information presented in a way to distort reality -

• bias

• propaganda

• political party

Most Americans are this -

• liberal

• conservative

• moderate

A group of people with similar interests, organized to nominate candidates, and run the government -

• platform

• Political party

• Interest Group

They rarely win elections, focus on one issue and person like Teddy Roosevelt -

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Third Parties

An electoral system with two dominant (strong) parties who compete in elections -

• two-party system

• three-party system

• political party

The action taken by the government takes in response to an issue or problem -

• platform

• propaganda

• public policy

A group of people with common goals organized to influence government and public policy -

• interest group

• political party

• Third Party

Efforts made by a political party to earn enough votes to get its candidates elected to office -

• candidate

• campaign

• liberal

Legislation aimed at placing limits on campaign contributions and spending practices -

• Political Action Committee

• Citizen United v FEC

• Campaign Finance Reform