1. Warm Up Leave your HW on your desk:
Write down the answer to each of the following (without looking at your notes):
Most dominant special interest contributor to Democrats.
What is NARAL concerned with?
Difference between interest groups and political parties?
What is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce concerned with?

2. Lobbying What is Lobbying?
It is a trying to influence decisions made by the government.

3. How does lobbying work? There are two types of lobbying strategies:
Direct Lobbying: direct/face to face with a member or employee of Congress.
Grassroots/Indirect: Asking the general public to contact legislators and government officials concerning the issue at hand
Which examples to the left are direct and which are grassroots?

4. What are the problems with lobbying?
Makes the government concerned with the voice of interest groups/corporations instead of the voice of the people.
How did Abramoff get to “own people”?

5. Let’s look at Money’s role in politics…

6. Total Cost of Elections in 2016
Why does money have such a big influence on elections?
Because running for office is expensive.

8. Top Spending Organizations

9. Some ways to finance a campaign:
Individual Contributors: Individuals giving their own money. Can only give up to $2700 per year directly to the campaign.
Personal Income: Candidate using their own money. Trump used about 67 million of his own money- really a loan.
Public Financing: Government financing your election. Since 2008, Not a popular option.
Independent expenditure organization: PACS, 527s, SUPER PACS

11. Top Individual Donors

12. Important Terms to Know in regards to the role of Money in Elections
Public Financing
PAC
527s
501s
Super PAC
Lobbying
Direct Lobbying
Indirect/Grassroots Lobbying
FEC
Watergate
McCain-Feingold law
Soft money vs. Hard Money
Citizens United vs. FEC

13. Top Super PACs of 2016 election

14. Warm Up Take out your reading on campaign finance.
Go over the answers to the questions with a partner.

15. History of campaign finance
"Watergate was basically a campaign finance scandal," says Chris Dolan, a political science professor at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.
Caused the creation of the FEC- an organization that governs the financing of federal elections.
McCain Feingold law sought to further regulate campaign finance. It made soft money illegal.
Soft Money =unregulated money given to a political party or candidate.
Hard Money = money given to a party or candidate that is regulated.
Under McCain Feingold era, PACS were the primary means of raising money for candidates.
Citizens United vs. FEC- made unlimited corporate and union contributions legal so long as these entities did not coordinate DIRECTLY with campaigns.
Under Citizens United vs. FEC, SuperPACs are the primary means of raising money for candidates with 527s and 501s thrown in.

16. PACs vs. Super PACs vs. 527s vs 501s
Name of Organization
Must disclose donors to FEC?
Can they give money to political candidates?
Are there limits on the amount they can give to federal candidates?
Are there limits on the amounts of donations they can receive?
PACS
Yes 
 Yes
 Yes, $5000
501s
 No, charity based
 No
 N/A
 No, unlimited
527s
 Yes, but not donations under $50
Super PACS
  Yes, but not donations under $50 No

17. Cartoon Analysis For each cartoon, answer the following questions.
Find 3 details in the cartoon.
Find 2 symbols (an object, detail that represents something larger)
What is the cartoonist’s message about campaign finance? Use specific evidence about how campaign finance works to support your answer.

18. Cartoon # 1

19. Cartoon # 2

20. Cartoon # 3

21. Cartoon # 4

25. H.W. Read p. 566-571 (stop at “the Media’s Influence on the Public)
Questions
Provide examples describing how politicians and the media interact.
Why do reporters no longer think twice about filing a story critical of a politician?
What do presidents use press conferences for?
What do press secretaries do?
What is it to “debate about newsworthiness”?
Who receives the vast majority of the press’ attention?
Why does covering Congress pose a challenge for the media?
Which members of Congress receive the lion’s share of attention?
Can the media have access to Supreme Court discussion? Why or why not