Across
- 2. the largest number of something, but less than a majority
- 5. to move to another place
- 8. a method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad
- 9. to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming law
Down
- 1. practice of handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters.
- 3. a part of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones
- 4. a candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state
- 6. greater than half of a total number of something
- 7. a meeting in which representative members of a political party choose candidates to run for important elected offices