1. What do you think is the best method to reform campaign financing?
- Stricter contribution limits
- Stricter spending caps
- Elimination of Political Action Committees (PACs)
- Complete public financing
- Electronic filing of contributions
- Free television time for candidates who are on the ballot in all 50 states.
- None. I don’t support campaign finance reform.
- Stricter spending caps
2. Which party do the following special interest groups/industries contribute more to: Republicans, Democrats, or equal amounts to both parties? (Figures are from the 1994 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics).
- a. Defense sector
- b. American Institute of CPA’s
- c. Energy/Natural Resources sector
- d. National Rural Letter Carriers Association
- e. Ideological/single-issue PACs
- f. National Beer Wholesalers Association
- g. Philip Morris
- b. American Institute of CPA’s
3. Help Dole go negative: Write a bumper sticker slogan for his campaign to use to attack Clinton (Best answer wins a MoJo Wire hat).
4. Fill in the blanks below to fill in the following quotes:
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a. ____________ hinted that ____________’s trip to Moscow as a student was somehow treasonous. b. ____________’s campaign ads said that Willie Horton’s parole and subsequent crimes, showed that ______________ was too easy on criminals while Governor. c. ____________ said, “Who is this guy? What does he know about it? . . . His word’s no good,” about _______________, during a rally in New Jersey. d. ____________ said, He’s “liberal, liberal, liberal.” about _____________. e. ____________ said that _____________ reminded him of his brother Kenny, “the great exaggerator,” who liked to say things that were “not quite accurate.” f. ____________ said it’s not _____________’s age that concerned him, it’s the age of his ideas. |
1. George Bush
2. Michael Dukakis 3. Bill Clinton 4. Ross Perot 5. Bob Dole 6. Ronald Reagan |
5. If the elections were held today, and all these candidates had an equal chance of winning, who would you vote for?
- Bob Dole (Republican)
- Bill Clinton (Democrat)
- Ross Perot (Reform Party)
- Ralph Nader (Green Party)
- Harry Browne (Libertarian)
- Howard Phillips (U.S. Taxpayers Party)
- Lyndon LaRouche (Democrat)
- John Hagelin (Natural Law Party)
- Bill Clinton (Democrat)
6. If the elections were held today, and you were restricted to just these two candidates, which one would you vote for?
- Bob Dole
- Bill Clinton
