1.What are the major factors that influence how members of Congress make decisions. Include the role of the people, the role of the budget, the role of existing law, the role of political parties, and the role PAC and lobbyists.

2.What is a political action committee?

3.What are the differences between a PAC and a super-PAC?

4.How did the case Citizens United vs US impact the abilities and influence of PACs?

5.What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)?

6.What is the Tillman Act?

7.Contrast the differences between the Tillman Act and the BCRA.

8.What are straw polls? What are push polls?What are tracking polls?What are exit polls?

9.What is a margin-of-error in polling?

10.What is political socialization?

11.What are some factors of political socialization.

12.What are the differences between social media and mass media. Include the role of the people and their interactions and the purpose of each and how those purposes may or may not be the same.

13.Explain the impact that NY Times vs US (1971) had on the media.Include the term "prior restraint" in your answer.

14.Explain the influence that "narrowcasting" news outlets like Spanish-language tv, al-Jazeera, BBC and others have had on American politics.

15.What is the primary function of political parties?

16.Contrast the differences between a political action committee and a political party.

17.What is a "third party"?

18.What are 2 important impacts a third party can have on elections, even if they have no chance of winning.

19. HOW "single-member districts", the Electoral College, "plurality voting" and "winner-takes-all" limit the ability of third parties to become major parties.