Campaign fundraising simulation

For this activity we had two candidates each candidate had a party, the Nation Party and the American Party. Other students were small businesses or organizations. Each candidate had to listen and negotiate between each of the groups. Each group either had money, votes or money. The candidates had to choose which laws and they wanted to pass. If the groups agreed with the candidates terms they either gave them money or votes.

What I learned from this is that you can’t just have votes you also need money for your campaign and to buy votes. I learned that when you are the candidate the pressure is on you to choose what you think is best what you think will get you elected and what you think is good for everyone. Of course not everyone is going to agree with you but you try to see what is more appealing to the most amounts of people. From my experience with this activity it was hard because people were shouting at you from every direction telling you that if you pass these laws all give you this amount of votes, or this amount of money. Sometimes if they didn’t like what you told them or if you told them that you would think about it they would move on to the next person.

This system impacts our government because it’s how we chose our president. When they campaign they show us what they care about and what they have to offer us. These businesses and small groups help them out with money and votes in order to do that especially money because with that money they can put ads out to the public and buy votes.
A con about this system is that the smaller groups that don’t have much to offer don’t get themselves heard, as for the ones that have more to offer. I think that all the candidates what is to become the next president just to make changes of their own because we don’t know if what they say is going to be the truth they can go back on their word for all we know.
A pro about this is that we do get to know what our candidate is supporting by their campaigning, advertisement etc.