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

• Identified forms of propaganda techniques used in historic presidential campaign commercials

⚙️ Resources

• "I Like Ike" (Eisenhower, 1952)
• "Kennedy For Me" (Kennedy, 1960)
• "Daisy" (Johnson, 1964)
• "Laughing" (Humphrey, 1968)
• "Nixon Now" (Nixon, 1972)
• "Ted" (Kennedy, 1980)
• "Morning in America" (Reagan, 1984)
• "Bear" (Reagan, 1984)
• "Tank" (Bush, 1988)
• "Read My Lips" (Clinton, 1992)
• "Rats" (RNC, 2000)
• "Windsurfing" (Bush, 2004)

💻 Homework

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