Mass Media, Electoral Votes, and Political Parties

Unit Paper In today’s politics the Political Parties, Voters, The Electoral Process and Mass Media are all connected to one another. An example for this is the incoming elections in the United States. There are political parties that have their own ideas on how to change the government for the better of the citizens. Political parties are defined as an organized group of people with the same political aims and opinions, who seeks to change the public policy by having their candidates elected to the public office. Even though most of the people believe that the United States has only two political parties, we actually have more than six main political parties. The two most popular parties are Republicans and Democrats.
The Republicans believe that there should be less power for the government and more for the people, while the Democrats; they believe that there should be more taxes to help the people that are low income. There are also additional political parties, most often referred to as a 3rd-party candidate; these are the TEA Party, the Constitution Party, the Libertarian Party, Single Issue Party, Economic Protest Party, Splinter Party, and the Green Party. (Democratic-Republican Party)
The TEA Party’s belief is to not change the government or change to a system that has been made in the past, the Constitution Party is a political group that tends to limit the growth of the government, the Libertarian Party believes that the only purpose of the government is to protect the rights of the citizens, the Single issue party focuses only on one major problem, Economic protest party focuses on taxes, the Splinter party split from a bigger party to a smaller party, the Green Party’s beliefs are policies based on conserving the environment.
Political parties seek out to the public for their support in order to win an election. For them to achieve this they need to use the mass media in order to get the attention of people. The mass media is a way to