*Chapters 7-9 Crosswords*

1. those events and issues that concern the people at large politics,public issues,and the making of public policies.
5. a person who tries to persuade public officials to do those things that interest groups want them to do.
8. interest group withing the business community
10. as a nominating device a group of like minded people who meet to select the candidates they will support in an upcoming election
11. an organization of workers who share the same type of job or who work in the same industry and press for for government policies that will benefit their members.
14. the complex collection of the opinions of many different people to sum up all their views.
16. the instruction or commands a constituency gives to its elected officials.
17. a party nominating election in which only declared party members can vote.
19. provisions made for those unable to get to their regular polling places on election day.

2. private organizations whose members share certain views and work to shape public policies.
3. short, sharply focused report that can be air in thirty or fourty-five seconds.
4. election in which candidates are not identified by party labels.
6. a means of communication something that transmits information
7. activities by which group pressures are brought to bear on the legislators, legislative process and all aspects of the public policy making process.
9. those means of communication that reach large audiences especially television,radio, printed publications, and the internet.
12. the public issues on which the peoples attention is focused.
13. an election held within a party to pick that party's candidates for the general election
14. the smallest unit of election administration a voting district.
15. a party nominating election in which any qualified voter can part.
18. device that attempts to collect information by asking people questions.