2. Chapter 12: Understanding Elections
Section 2
Campaign Funding and
Political Action Committees

3. Campaign Funding and Political Action Committees
Reading Focus
Money plays a major role in election campaigns. Candidates and their staff must carefully decide where the campaign will get money and how it will use this money.

4. Campaign Funding and Political Action Committees
Focus Questions
What happened to Jim Traficant?
What happened to Tom Delay?
Where does campaign money come from?
What has been major the campaign finance laws in U.S. history?
What are PACs and what do they do?
What are 527 groups and what do they do?
What is important about the Citizen United supreme court decision?