Open your physical or email mailbox during a campaign year and you may find hundreds of unsolicited, political handbills funded by individual campaigns, Political Action Committees (PACs), and Super Political Action Committees (SPACs). Handbills may include endorsements and/or condemnation from interest groups, public policy concerns, and snippets of news coverage favorable and/or unfavorable to a candidate and/or office holder. Handbills may also contain information about a personàvoting record and their public policy concerns.

As you can imagine, creating a favorable handbill that fully articulates the strength of the candidateàcharacter, public policy concerns, and endorsements takes a bit of research and finesse. In this assignment, you are going to give this kind of work a try.

Following are some suggested resources for creating your handbill:

Ballotpediaü/a> website on political parties in the United States.

Data on Campaign Finance, Super PACs, Industries, and Lobbying. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.opensecrets.org/.

• Candidateàofficial website, which you can find by googling the candidateàname + official website.

Local, State, and National News Media.

• On the Issues7ebsite about candidates and elected officials0olitical positions.

Pew Research Centerü/a> website on public opinion polling and data-driven political research.

• Vote Smartü/a> website database on candidates and elected officials.
• Select a recent candidate or officeholder at the federal level that you considered supporting with your vote. Craft a handbill that advocates your personàcandidacy. Include the following:
• The Individual
• Does this personàmoral and professional capacity make this individual capable of serving å the people%thically and well?