Mr Rangel's critics will have none of this. But some comfort themselves with the belief that he is the last of a dying breed of machine politician.

也许此言对兰格尔先生的批评者无益，但他们中一些可以自我安慰的相信兰格尔是政客们最后的一个繁衍。

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But the question many people in Blackpool were asking was whether choosing an old-fashioned machine politician as leader was really the best the party could do.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Mrs Clinton remains a formidable candidate an experienced and intelligent politician, backed by a state-of-the-art political machine.

ECONOMIST: The presidential race