2. organized around common interests and goals to
compete with each other during elections

Political Parties

Explanation:

Political Parties are organizations that attempt to get people into positions of political power, the purpose of which is to advance their beliefs, goals and agenda on how things should be done.

As such, the members of political parties join them because they believe and share the goals and agendas of the party in question and would like to see those agendas prevail.

Different political parties will typically have varying beliefs on how things should be done such that they will compete with one another during elections to get their preferred candidates into power so as to push the party agenda.

True

Explanation:

It is TRUE that when the federal government awards grants-in-aid to states, the federal government may attach conditions to the states receiving that funding.

This is evident in the fact that Conditions of aid in the United States issued by the Congress and it specify to state governments what must be done if they desire to collect grant money. This is otherwise known as traditional control.

Hence, in this case, the correct answer is TRUE.