1. Friday December 12, 2014 Sit in Partners. NC Senate Race Article
Agenda
Homework
Sit in Partners.
NC Senate Race Article
Campaign Finance Notes
Check Engrade for missing assignments.
Look on Engrade and bring me any missing work to fix on your progress report.

2. Civics and Economics Day 74

3. Get out a Sheet of paper and write your name and your partners name on it. I will be collecting this after both articles.

4. NC Senate Race 1. Who participated in this race?
2. How much did the race cost?
3. What was the priciest Senate race in history before 2014? (Takes some subtraction to figure out)
4. How many ads were run in this election cycle?
5. In the paragraph below that what was the number 1 reason for spending?
6. When did Tillis announce his campaign?
7. North Carolina is considered a __________ State meaning it could be Republican or Democratic.
8. Who won this election?

5. Campaign Finance Notes

6. How much does it cost to win an election?
Average Campaign Costs (2014 winners)
House: $1.2 Million
Senate: $8.6 million

7. Where do they get this money?

8. Sources of Money Their own Money
Small Individual Donations
Could be anywhere from thousands to millions.
Anything less than $200 doesn’t have to be reported.

9. Sources of Money Maximum of $5,000 donation. Maximum of $5,000.
Large Donors
Political Parties
Maximum of $5,000 donation.
Maximum of $5,000.

10. Sources of Money Political Action Committees (PACs)
Super PACS
Political Action Committees (PACs)
Created for a specific purpose
Can contribute up to $5,000
PACs that are able to give unlimited donations!!!

11. What is a Super Pac? Article
9. What does ABC define a Super PAC as and what percent of Americans could identify it?
10. What year did this change and what is the Supreme Court case called now?
11. On January 21, 2010 what did the Supreme court do?
12. What was the case that cleared the way for the creation of “independent Expenditure-only” groups? These are otherwise known as?
13. What was Steven Colbert’s Super PAC called?
14. From the Most Awesomely Unusual Super PAC names, which is your favorite and why?

12. Missing Assignments
Progress Reports will be going out on Monday! I’d love to make sure that everyone has all of their work in. Please check engrade to find out if you are missing anything, such as a project presentation, homework or classwork assignment.