Public may wrest power away from the political machine in the task of drawing legislative districts.
He still had to penetrate a political machine that usually required a hometown pedigree.
Mrs Clinton remains a formidable candidate an experienced and intelligent politician, backed by a state-of-the-art political machine.
But there is also a more subtle story about the creation of a political machine.
He also has full command of the most efficient White House political machine in recent memory.
It cannot be easy competing with Mr Forbes's millions and Mr Bush's extraordinary political machine.
Where once Mr Bush's political machine seemed invincible, now it cannot get anything right.
But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled by Sen.
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Will he use unions as coercion arms as the PRI's political machine did in the past?
The other guy's been running bigger and bigger cogs in the Chicago political machine his entire adult life.
In Chicago he got on well with everybody, from the local teachers' unions to the Daley political machine.
Mr D'Amato has survived so far because he knows better than most how to run a political machine.
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The cooperatives and communal councils provided Chavez with his formidable grassroots political machine.
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And he has constructed a political machine in which all the levers of power are, ultimately, under his control.
Yet he is a scion of the PRI's most retrograde regional political machine.
Though the Brotherhood played little role in the revolution, its well-honed political machine succeeded in getting its supporters to the polls.
If his election slate does better than expected, Mr. Binay will have shown his vote-getting prowess and fine-tuned his political machine.
And the organizers often lock horns with the city's entrenched political machine.
What a mess for a once-legendary political machine to find itself in.
Mr Susilo lacks the strong political machine of Miss Megawati's PDI-P and of Golkar, Suharto's former party, which has backed Mr Wiranto.
The prime minister would sit alone at the apex of both a highly centralised political machine and a highly centralised administrative machine.
Mr Obama has put together the most disciplined and creative Democratic political machine in recent memory one quite capable of defeating the formidable Clinton machine.
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Everyone else is nowhere, including the leaders of Golkar, once the political machine of the ex-dictator Suharto and still the largest party in parliament.
Mr Duhalde retains control over this political machine, which he deployed to help Mr Kirchner defeat his arch-enemy Carlos Menem, Argentina's president from 1989-99.
Most of the people camped on Reforma, far from constituting an independent social movement, were cogs in the political machine built by the former mayor.
Although reform is happening, the century-old political machine is still there.
Almost half of Mr Kirchner's votes came from the sprawling province of Buenos Aires, suggesting that Mr Duhalde's longstanding political machine there is still well oiled.
Obama said Wednesday he scored a "big victory" on Tuesday and that he was overcoming Clinton's "political machine" that made her the front-runner in every race.
Simply put, many in Congress are afraid of the political machine that is Norquist, understanding that crossing him publicly could be the political kiss of death.
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