Laws are passed to regulate the funding of political campaigns in an effort to ensure that only a handful of candidates run for office.
all candidates who run for office have equal funding.
corporations and the wealthy cannot donate an excessive amount.
candidates focus on the day’s controversial issues.

The tea party movement is a. an official third party that challenges both democrats and republicans in national elections. b. an organized challenge to incumbents in the republican party by the most conservative wing of the republican party. c. an organized challenge to incumbents in the democratic party by the most liberal wing of the democratic party. d. an offspring of the green party that runs for state and local office in many midwestern states. e. the now defunct party that gave way to the republican party at the end of the “second party system.”