Across
- 1. These organizations raise money to donate to candidates based on whether they support specific views on an issue.
- 2. Changing the way that campaigns are run
- 5. A representative from an interest group who contacts lawmakers or other government officials directly to influence their policy making
- 7. The course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem
- 9. A consistent tilt to favor one side of an issue, while ignoring or discounting evidence that supports the other side
- 10. Political view that favors a smaller gov and has more traditional views
- 11. A person who seeks or is nominated for an office
- 12. a written statement that expresses a candidate's or party's political view
Down
- 1. A geographic area that contains a specific number of voters
- 2. The organized effort by a candidate to win support in an election.
- 3. A group formed to make a guided course of action
- 4. Political view that citizens who fall in between liberal and conservative views
- 5. Political view that favors bigger gov and has less traditional views
- 6. An organization of people with an interest in a particular public issue
- 7. Information, usually false or misleading, that is deliberately repeated over and over in an attempt to influence votes or public opinion on an issue.
- 8. The term for all forms of communication, including radio, TV, newspapers, books, magazines, the Internet, recordings and movies, etc.