Legislative glossary
Public Awareness (PA)
Also known as: PA · attention
Definition
How much the press and the public are paying attention to your bill. Above 50, public-pressure plays unlock and undecideds shift your way.
Why it matters
Public attention is legislative leverage. An issue voters are watching gives fence-sitters a reason to move and makes quiet kills (the hold, the buried calendar) expensive. But attention cuts both ways. It summons the opposition too, and it fades on its own schedule, not yours. Campaigns spend awareness while they have it.
In the game
Push The Bill to Law Game's Public Awareness meter above 50 and pressure plays unlock: undecideds drift your way and chairs find it harder to sit on your bill quietly.
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