13 Facts of Chapter 17.1

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Across
  1. 4. Every ___ years, national elections are held to select all representatives and one-third of the senators.
  2. 6. The most important communication tool for a presidential candidate is __________.
  3. 8. Direct _________ to candidates or parties also come from political action committees, or PACs.
  4. 10. To be elected president, a candidate must win 270 of the 538 available _________ votes.
  5. 11. The 1974 campaign finance law established public funding for presidential _________.
  6. 12. The BRCA banned soft money donations to national _________ parties, but it raised the limit for individual direct donations to $2,000.
Down
  1. 1. In the 2008 elections, presidential and congressional candidates spent more than $4 _______.
  2. 2. President Obama used social networks such as YouTube and ________
  3. 3. ____________________ (two words, no spaces) are one of the possibilities that television offers for a candidate to shape his or her image to voters.
  4. 5. The __________ Campaign Reform Act (BRCA) targeted issue advertising and soft money donations to national political parties.
  5. 7. _______ races in the spring help narrow the field of candidates.
  6. 9. In 2004, Howard Dean was the first to raise significant contributions on the Web and to gain support through www.______.com.