s party lines than they were forty years ago, and if they see an injustice happening they can easily manage it.There is, however, one problem that the interest groups present to contemporary politics and that is money. With the spread of soft money and issue support advertisements, not to mention the rising cost of running for office, interest groups are becoming a major part of getting someone elected. It is not enough anymore to be a strong and possible candidate, a person needs money, and lots of it to be elected. A major source of this money is interest groups. There may be a time in the near future where interest groups will have to form a association in order to get enough money to a person elected. If enough of these groups join together into a few massive associations then they could have a large influence on policy. If enough candidates fall in favor of one of these associations then policy could be affected but that is a very unlikely scenario. This is an example of the foresight of the founders. By creating a government that is layered and where each branch has the power to check the other, they created a government that has withstood the test of time and interest groups. As we begin a new millennium politicians are living under an ever-growing microscope. It is very unlikely that a single or small group of politicians would be able to be persuaded by a single interest group without the media picking up on the fact. As evident by the fact that a large majority of politicians are against term limits, the main objective is to get re-elected. Despite the lure of money that the interest groups offer, politicians know that the quickest way to lose the favor of the electorate is by being implicated in a scandal . The fear of scandal combined with the effects of hyperpluralism make it increasingly unlikely that the influence of interest groups will do anything except decline. It has never been against the law to give a person advice...
