Public may wrest power away from the political machine in the task of drawing legislative districts.
But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled by Sen.
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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.
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.
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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Fewer new firms have broken into the big league since 2003 and those that have done so have tended to be good at working the political machine.
This latest scandal may spell the end for the political machine built by Paulo Maluf, a conservative populist who was variously the city's mayor and Sao Paulo's state governor during Brazil's military government of 1964-85.
But the districts in general have seen their reputations swing dramatically from innovative inner-city rejuvenator to budget sham of the political machine, thanks largely to the reporting of Ben Joravsky of the Chicago Reader.
After her brush with the political machine, she says that she hopes that the general election will allow schools to be discussed in a way that reflects the complex reality, rather than simplistic party positions.
Walker faces the might of the national public employee union machine, as well as the national Obama political machine, which sees the public employee unions as the core of its political base.
What pressure will be put on the US political machine to settle before what could well be a disastrous blow to the US software, music, and film industries happens?
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 Susilo lacks the strong political machine of Miss Megawati's PDI-P and of Golkar, Suharto's former party, which has backed Mr Wiranto.
Do conservatives really want to send a candidate to do battle with the Obama political machine advocating cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits, especially when more fundamental reforms would reduce spending far more?
Will he use unions as coercion arms as the PRI's political machine did in the past?
Mrs Clinton remains a formidable candidate an experienced and intelligent politician, backed by a state-of-the-art political machine.
It includes corporate tax reform that would close the loopholes that allow Obama political machine cronies like General Electric to avoid paying any taxes, and reduce the federal rate to a more internationally competitive 25%.
But there is also a more subtle story about the creation of a political machine.
Although reform is happening, the century-old political machine is still there.
But capping a trend that began in the 1980s, the committee now is the center of action in the current fight for the House, a modern-day equivalent of the old-fashioned political machine.
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Though the Brotherhood played little role in the revolution, its well-honed political machine succeeded in getting its supporters to the polls.
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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He also has full command of the most efficient White House political machine in recent memory.
And the organizers often lock horns with the city's entrenched political machine.
Is he up to the task of fundamentally reforming an authoritarian political machine that despite its accomplishments in restoring stability, a modicum of prosperity and international respect after the Gorbachev-Yeltsin years seems incapable of shaping Russia into a truly modern society?
The lesson is clear: at this stage in American history, the noble ideal of a government that serves all and protects the conditions that give rise to a healthy economy has a hard time prevailing against a political machine that focuses its energies on the single-minded goal of using federal favors to buy enough votes to win.
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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.
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