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Homework

'Questions on the text "Lobbying and PACs"'

1. a) direct lobbying

• face-to-face meetings
• different lobbyists join together to present their point of view (coalition approach)

b) indirect lobbying

• massive letter-writing

=> information about the concerns they represent

=> educate public officials about a specific point of view

'Summary of a poll'

'Elections'

'in the USA'

• Poll finds great expectations for Obama
• Barack Obama fulfils the dream
• Great expectations: Barack Obama and the world - a Canadian opinion

'in Germany'

1. The CDU/CSU won the elections with 33.8 percent. They will form the government with
2. the FDP. The FDP had one of their best election result ever (14.6 %)
3. the opposition will be led by the SPD that had one of their worst votings (23.0 %)(compared with the last election they had a loss of 11.2 %) and now they even try to make friends with
4. the Linke. They won in 15 electoral districts. That's 11 districts more than last time. They got 11.9 percent. That's even more than
5. the Bündnis '90/ die Grünen because they only got 10.7 percent.
6. All other parties together got 6.0 percent