His first subjects were machine politics and the rising importance of black constituents at the ballot box.

"What we have is all the abuses of machine politics and none of the benefits," she said.

But as recent American elections have shown, machine politics matters less and less in the media age.

Prior to the convention, there was a great deal of machine politics conducted by the candidates.

He called for registration of new voters in order to break the hold of machine politics.

Their position was very strong in machine politics, too.

James has become known as an example of "machine politics."

"The results are based on what we see as voters' total disgust with Republican machine politics," he said.

For many years, Liberals found such a reason in their campaign against Democratic machine politics.

Fairly or not, his name is inextricably tied to a county known for machine politics and government corruption.