Presidential Election Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. right-wing/conservative party that promotes limited governmental power
  2. 6. the process used to choose the president
  3. 8. assessing public opinion by asking people what they think and feel.
  4. 9. election where the party's candidate is selected on their party's ballot
  5. 12. head of senate and tie-breaker
  6. 14. a party that is not affiliated to the two major parties
  7. 15. a person chosen by their party to run in an election
  8. 16. when people representing their state, cast votes during primaries based on the state's popular vote
  9. 17. liberal, left-wing party that promotes change
  10. 18. when party electors select their presidential nominee and the nominee picks vice president
  11. 19. second in line of succession. assigns house representatives to committees (taking over role of president)
Down
  1. 1. third in line of succession senate majority leader, person nominated by senate's dominant party to be their leader in Congress
  2. 2. the stand a party takes on how an issue should be managed
  3. 3. election where the nominees for each party are voted for on the same ballot
  4. 5. the votes cast by individual voters in a presidential election. Determines number of electoral votes
  5. 7. a person running for office
  6. 10. fourth in line of succession for president, in charge of president's foreign relations
  7. 11. a population count taken every 10 years, which determines a state's number of electoral votes
  8. 13. person who cast the actual votes for president, based on who the state wants
  9. 16. where political parties nominate their official candidate for election