The Presidency

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  1. 3. Term for the President as the representative of the people.
  2. 4. Scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled.
  3. 7. Term for the President as commander of the nation's armed forces.
  4. 8. Proposal by which each presidential candidate would receive the same share of a State’s electoral vote as he or she received in the State’s popular vote.
  5. 9. Votes cast by electors in the electoral college.
  6. 12. A person elected by the voters to represent them in making a formal selection of the Vice President and President.
  7. 13. Proposal to do away with the electoral college and allow the people to vote directly for President and Vice President.
  8. 16. When a presidential candidate chooses a running mate who can strengthen his chance of being elected by virtue of certain ideological, geographic, racial, ethnic, gender, or other characteristics.
  9. 17. Meeting at which a party's delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
  10. 19. Term for the President as head of the administration of the Federal Government.
  11. 21. Speech given at a party convention to set the tone for the convention and the campaign to come.
Down
  1. 1. Term for the President as the ceremonial head of the U.S., the symbol of all people of the nation.
  2. 2. Term for the President as the main architect of foreign policy and spokesperson to other countries.
  3. 4. Rule applied in Democratic primaries whereby any candidate who wins at least 15% of the votes gets the number of State Democratic convention delegates based on his or her share of that primary vote.
  4. 5. All of the people entitled to vote in a given election.
  5. 6. Proposal for electing a President by which the winner of the popular vote would receive a bonus of 102 electoral votes in addition to his or her State-based electoral college votes.
  6. 10. An election in which a party’s voters (1) choose State party organization’s delegates to their party’s national convention and (2) express a preference for their party’s presidential nomination.
  7. 11. Group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every 4 years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
  8. 12. A political party’s formal statement of basic principles, stands on major issues, and objectives.
  9. 14. Term for the President as architect of public policy and the one who sets the agenda for Congress.
  10. 15. Term for the President as vested with the executive power of the U.S.
  11. 18. An almost obsolete system whereby a presidential aspirant who won the preference vote in a primary automatically won all the delegates chosen in the primary.
  12. 19. Term for the President as the leader of his or her political party.
  13. 20. Proposal for choosing presidential electors by which 2 electors would be selected in each State according to the Statewide popular vote and the other electors would be selected separately in each of the State's congressional districts.