Across
- 3. Term for the President as the representative of the people.
- 4. Scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled.
- 7. Term for the President as commander of the nation's armed forces.
- 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.
- 9. Votes cast by electors in the electoral college.
- 12. A person elected by the voters to represent them in making a formal selection of the Vice President and President.
- 13. Proposal to do away with the electoral college and allow the people to vote directly for President and Vice President.
- 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.
- 17. Meeting at which a party's delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
- 19. Term for the President as head of the administration of the Federal Government.
- 21. Speech given at a party convention to set the tone for the convention and the campaign to come.
Down
- 1. Term for the President as the ceremonial head of the U.S., the symbol of all people of the nation.
- 2. Term for the President as the main architect of foreign policy and spokesperson to other countries.
- 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.
- 5. All of the people entitled to vote in a given election.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 12. A political party’s formal statement of basic principles, stands on major issues, and objectives.
- 14. Term for the President as architect of public policy and the one who sets the agenda for Congress.
- 15. Term for the President as vested with the executive power of the U.S.
- 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.
- 19. Term for the President as the leader of his or her political party.
- 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.