Around the world, powerful economic and political elites unduly influence the laws, policies and national and international institutions to suit their needs, fueled by the "money-in-politics" machine, which is protected by those same interests.
Gallup claimed that his polls had rescued American politics from the political machine and restored it to the American pastoral, the New England town meeting.
Particularly when it comes to black politics, the machine consumes dissent.
Gradually, Chicago caught up with the rest of the country and media-driven politics eclipsed machine-driven politics.
D'Amato's methods harken back to the days of machine politics: the politics of distribution and retribution.
The results, however, seemed to have less to do with machine politics than Hasidic politics, particularly within the splintered Satmar sect.
Old-fashioned machine politics -- the politics of benefits, of dividing the spoils -- is still the dominant flavor here.
Fairly or not, his name is inextricably tied to a county known for machine politics and government corruption.
At stake are two political traditions: the old, working-class machine politics personified by Mr Martinez, and a middle-class reformist trend represented by Dade County's mayor, Alex Penelas.
At his victory party, Mr. Suozzi boldly declared, "At this moment, we begin to break the back of machine politics in Nassau County government".
Structurally, the county suffers from decades of machine politics that have left the government dysfunctional, Mr. Suozzi said.
