3.2 How Candidates & Groups Try to Influence Your Vote 🧠

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🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Used notes from Lesson 3, Part 2: How Candidates and Groups Try to Influence Your Vote, to answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1. Define direct mail, media, propaganda, and bias.
   
2. List four methods candidates use to get their messages to voters.
3. What are the goals of interest groups?
4. List the major propaganda techniques that might be used in campaign messages.
5. How might opinion polls affect the outcome of an election?
6. Evaluate Abraham Lincoln was one of our greatest presidents. He was also awkward and tired-eyed. Do you think that Lincoln could become president in today? Explain your answer.

⚙️ Resources

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💻 Homework

• Finish Lesson 3, Part 2 review questions by T 30 Sep, if necessary