Campaigns and Elections Crossword

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  1. 2. surge An increase in the votes congressional candidates usually get when they first run for election.
  2. 8. An election held to choose candidates for office,
  3. 10. Funds obtained by political parties that are spent on party activities, such as get-out-the-vote drives, but not on behalf of a specific candidate
  4. 11. An election held to choose which candidate will hold office.
  5. 13. action committee A committee set up by a corporation, labor union, or interest group that raises and spends campaign money from voluntary donations.
  6. 14. Drawing the boundaries of legislative districts so that they are unequal in population.
  7. 16. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two, putting a clothespin over his nose yo keep out the unpleasant stench.
  8. 17. A second primary election held when no candidate wins a majority of the votes in the first primary.
  9. 18. Drawing boundaries of legislative districts in bizarre or unusual shapes to favor one party
Down
  1. 1. A primary voting election in which voting is limited to already registered party members.
  2. 3. An issue about which the public is united and rival candidates or political parties adopt similar positions in hopes that each will be thought to best represent those widely shared benefits.
  3. 4. / Spending by political action committees, corporations, or labor unions to help a party or candidate but done independently of them.
  4. 5. A primary election in which voters may choose in which party to vote as they enter the polling place.
  5. 6. The person already holding and elective office.
  6. 7. The alleged tendency of candidates to win more votes in an election because of the presence at the top of the ticket of a better-known candidate, such as the president.
  7. 9. Organizations under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code that raise and spend money to advance political causes.
  8. 12. A primary election in which each voter may vote for candidates from both parties.
  9. 15. voting Voting for a candidate because you like his or her past actions in office