Interest groups come in all shapes and sizes, including advocacy groups on hundreds of different issues. Two general interest-group links with an ideological perspective are Turn Left (www.turnleft.com/liberal.html) and the Conservative Caucus (www.conservativeusa.org).

Visit the web sites for Turn Left and the Conservative Caucus and find out how these two sites represent liberal and conservative interests in the United States.

Other interest group sites dealing with specific issues that you may want to explore include the following:

• Abortion issue:
  
  
• National Right to Life Committee: www.nrlc
  
  
• National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League: www.naral.org
  
  
• Environmental issues:
  
  
• The Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org
  
  
• The Environmental Defense Fund: www.edf.org
  
  
• Gun control:
  
  
• Center to Prevent Handgun Violence: www.handguncontrol.org
  
  
• National Rifle Association: www.nra.org
  
  
• Women's issues:
  
  
• The Eagle Forum: www.eagleforum.org
  
  
• National Organization for Women: www.now.org

For any of these topics, in what ways are the positions of the two interest groups the same or as different from each other? What are the merits of the opposing arguments?