Across
- 5. The growing hostility between opposing political parties
- 6. Voting for all Democrats or all Republicans
- 9. A citizen's self-proclaimed preference for party or another.
- 11. Candidates should prove clear and distinct programs during their campaign and stick with it during their holding in office
Down
- 1. An electoral system in which legislative seats are awarded only to the candidates who come in first in their constituencies.
- 2. more liberal policy, hands-on gov (particularly to address social issues), think pro LGBTQIA+, pro DEI, pro choice, improved immigration systems, environmentalists, restricted gun use
- 3. Individuals that made up the Democratic party; those who are urban workers, Jews, Catholics Black Americans, Southerners and have low-income.
- 4. an organized group of people with similar ideas seeking to control the governing apparatus by gaining office in an election.
- 7. Elections to select party nominees which only those who have previously registered can vote.
- 8. Elections to select party nominees in which voters can decide if they want to vote on republican or democratic contest.
- 10. Periods of time where a majority of voters stick with the party in power at the time, which usually wins the majority of the elections