Which of the following statements BEST descibes how interest groups are limited in how they may contribute to politcal
campaigns?
A. Interest groups are limited in how much money they donate to individual candidates.
B. Interest groups are prohibited from supporting poltical candidates by holding rallies or organizing their
members as volunteers.
C. Money from interest groups cannot be used in political advertisements.
D. Interest groups are free to donate as much money as they wish to individual candidates, but are
prohibited from donating to political parties.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.