machine politics
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He also cut his teeth in the bare-knuckled machine politics of Monroe County, Kentucky, and knew how to win allies, according to those who knew him.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
Washington’s win dealt a stunning blow to Chicago’s machine politics.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2023
Jealous was, of course, not a blameless casualty of strategic machine politics.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
Shaped by backlash to the East Coast machine politics of the early 1900s, Los Angeles is famously ambivalent about power and institutionally diffuse.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2021
Ratcliffe, too, was compelled to drag himself out of the rut of machine politics, and to justify his right of admission to her house.
From Democracy, an American novel by Adams, Henry
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