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
The memoir of machine politics provides a famously jaundiced view of government.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2020
States, too, were afflicted with machine politics, and before 1890 it appeared that the dominant national party derived its most valuable support from organized business that profited by the partnership.
From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.
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