machine politics
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Comer 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
Platt was one of the most nearly absolute party bosses that the American system of machine politics has produced.
From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Howland, Harold
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