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| Term for the President as the ceremonial head of the United States, the symbol of all the people of the nation. |
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| Term for the President as vested with tht executive power of the United States |
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| Term for the President as head of the administration of the Federal Government. |
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| Term for the President as the main architect of foreign policy and spokesperson to other countries |
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| Term for the President as commander of the nation's armed forces |
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| Term for the President as architect of public policy and the one who sets the agenda for Congress |
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| Term for the President as the leader of his or her political party |
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| Tern for the President as the representative of the administration of the Federal Government |
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| Scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled |
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| Presidential Succession Act of 1947 |
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| Law specifying the order of presidential succession following the Vice President |
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| 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 |
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| A person elected by the voters to represent them in making a formal selection of the Vice President and President |
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| Votes cast by electors in the electoral college |
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| Group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President |
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| An election in which a party's voters (1) choose State party organization's delegates to their party's national convention, and/or (2) express a preference for their party's presidential nomination |
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| 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 |
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| Proportional representation rule |
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| 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 |
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| Meeting at which a party's delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates |
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| A political party's formal statement of badic principles, stands on major issues, and objectives |
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| Speech given at a party covention to set the tone for the convention and the campaign to come |
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| Proposal for choosing presidential electors by which two 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Proposal to do away with the elcetoral college and allow the people to vote directly for President and Vice President |
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| All of the people entitled to vote in a given election |
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| Proposal for electing a President by which the winner of the popilar vote owuld receive a bonus of 102 electoral votes in addition to his or her State-based electoral college votes. If no one received at least 321 electoral votes, a run-off election would be held |
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