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machine politics

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  1. Politics associated with political machines.


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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