Across
- 2. group of persons who seek to control government through the winning of elections and the holding of public office.
- 6. a general agreement among various groups on fundamental matters.
- 9. voting for candidates of different parties for different offices at the same election.
- 10. a temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority and so to control a government.
- 11. Parties those that have split away from one of the other major parties.
- 12. in a typical election, only the Republican or the Democratic Party’s candidates are the only ones with a reasonable chance of winning public office.
Down
- 1. the largest number of votes cast for the office.
- 2. the smallest unit of election administration; the voters in each precinct report to one polling place.
- 3. the strong support of their party and its policy stands.
- 4. the Democratic and Republican parties
- 5. a system in which several major and many lesser parties exist, seriously compete for, and actually win, public offices
- 7. the two major parties find common ground and work together.
- 8. political parties without wide voter support throughout the nation.