machine politics

1. Politics associated with political machines .

Example Sentences

This year you have a group of candidates who are a throwback to machine politics.

From The Daily Beast

That is, not to carry the flag for party machine politics but not to finger-wag over large sodas or e-cigarettes, either.

From The Daily Beast

On the Call he was simply a part of a news-machine; restricted by a policy, the whole a part of a still greater machine—politics.

From Project Gutenberg

Our people are thoroughly disgusted with machine politics, and demand politics without any machine.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Sage appears to have as accurate a knowledge of the female heart as of the twists and turns of machine politics.

From Project Gutenberg

Platt was one of the most nearly absolute party bosses that the American system of machine politics has produced.

From Project Gutenberg

But the development of party spirit and machine politics brought with it a great change.

From Project Gutenberg