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Across 4. A party that values principle stands on issues above all else 7. Producing a desired result 9. Scheduling primaries and caucuses early in order to weed out the week candidates 12. A special election initiated by petition to remove an official from office before the term is over 13. A shift when a figure from the party of power is elected president but there is no change in political attitude 15. The institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the U.S. 16. The selection of a person for office by vote 17. Voting for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election 19. Granting favors to office in return of political support 21. The theory that a multitude of groups, not the people as a whole, govern the United Sates 23. Allows citizens to vote directly on issues called propositions

Down 1. A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office 2. Meeting of party delegates every four years 3. Electoral system with two dominant parties that compete in national elections 4. The existent holder of a political office 5. Republican party faction of the 1890s to the 1910s, composed of reformers who opposed patron 6. Political support provided to a candidate on the basis of personal popularity 8. Al the people in a country who are entitled to vote 10. Delegates who run party affairs between national conventions 11. Party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage 13. Allows citizens to nominate candidates 14. Allows voters to petition to propose issues to be decided by qualified voters 18. A presidential candidate brings out supporters who vote for his candidates in different offices 20. The percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election 22. Meeting of party members to select delegates backing one or another primary candidate