Polictical Machine - What is it?
I was watching the Scott Brown acceptance speach, during the speach, Scott mentioned he had to beat the Mass. political machine, as a person who has run against the two party political machines, it is tough, so just what is the machine?
The poltical machine could be described as big brother on steroids, it all starts on the federal level with the head of each political party, the president on down to the precinct level, you have someone in charge on a national level who is in charge of state leaders of their party, who then is in charge of county leaders, who are in charge of city leaders, who are in charge of the small precincts, it is a top down organization, not what is sometimes referred to as a grassroots org.
When you think of it is sort like the hitler youth core for each party, they will do and say anything to discredit their opponents, the whisper campaigns, the fund raising, when you have a machine set up like they do, it is very tough to have an independent win against it.
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