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
He has instead operated in a world in which so much is based on machine politics and what Marie Brenner, the journalist, once described as New York’s “favor economy.”
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 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
Of this class were the professional politicians, whose wisdom and power consisted of manipulating machine politics and of grafting.
From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack
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