PGs are more representative than political parties in US
Descriptively representative
Most diverse Congress in history
o 56 AA in House
o 52 Hispanics
o 21 Asians
o 118th = 43% House Democrats are female
AARP = 38 million elderly members
Minority pressure groups
BLM
The Israel Lobby
National Congress of American Indians
Ideologically representative
NRA = 5.5 million members
Abortion – National Right to Life Committee
The Christian Coalition
NAACP (National Association Advancement Coloured People)
ACLU
Obama’s Democrats represented low-earners with American Recovery Act 2009 - $787bn
Biden with American Rescue Plan - $1.9tr
PPACA – 20 million
Negative partisanship
Trump’s ‘crooked Hillary’
Demonisation of Trump and Sanders
Trump’s representation of election-deniers
Trump = 81% Conservative voters
Clinton – 84% liberal voters
Conservative effort of PGs on Susan Collins + Lisa Murkowski to confirm Kavanaugh
Liberal PGs on Robert Bork blocking
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