Follow The Money

• Help students follow the money and understand how candidates raise money for their campaigns by linking to C-SPAN's Campaign Finance Database.
  
  Questions to ponder: How much money has each candidate raised? How do they spend their money?
  
  
• View a C-SPAN Classroom video clip about the competition for funding campaign ads on the internet. Use the discussion questions provided with the clip.

• Campaign Finance Database
• Campaign Finance Reform
• Federal Elections Commission
• McConnell vs FEC Decision

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• CIC’s eLECTIONS game
• Congressional Races
• Worksheets/Organizers
• Historic Elections
• Election quizzes
• Controversial Elections
• C-SPAN Video Archive
• Standards