We all started in the Daley machine.

The cynical spin: The Daley machine lives on.

Although he received much favorable media publicity, and support from leading black opponents of the Daley machine, Dawson overwhelmed him at the polls.

"I expect that we will face the Daley machine," he said.

Led by elderly activists within the high-rises - the dreaded "condo commandos" - is a political operation that makes the former Daley machine in Chicago look wimpy.

But before his election, he had spent a long career as a loyal member of the Daley machine, as had his father before him.

In a less madcap vein, Rokyo wrote Boss , a devastating portrait of the Daley machine and probably the best book ever written about city politics.

Mr. Quayle, perhaps sensing an uphill battle, has criticized the event as "almost like the old Daley machine - when you buy votes."

Mexico City is a supersize version of the Daley machine in Chicago or New York's Tammany Hall.

The days of Boss Daley, the Daley machine, that's over.