51. His political machine is still intact, but there is a new generation of voters, many of them new to South Carolina, drawn by industries like BMW. 52. Humility, because they understood that fixing the glitches in malfunctioning political machines produced more reliable results than indulging the arrogance of designing new ones. 53. If he does decide to run, he faces considerable hurdles from the well-financed and well-organized political machine of Gore, and from other possible Democratic contenders. 54. In Bangalore alone he has hundreds of fan clubs organized down to the neighborhood level, like a political machine. 55. In it he began to sow the seeds of the dilution of his political machine. 56. Indeed, in New Hampshire Bush was supposed to have been propelled to victory by the political machine of Sen. Judd Gregg. 57. In the old days, a long time ago, those were called political machines. 58. Instead, he said, Democrats are trying to embarrass the governor, John Engler, a Republican who has put his political machine behind Bush. 59. It built up a political machine in the provinces. 60. It is a political machine devoted to electing Republicans. |