Top most powerful Democratic machines in America

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The Kentucky Democratic Party is pretty damn impressive for a state they are fundamentally so stacked against in. Keeping those rural counties they held until the last few Presidential elections for so long is kind of amazing, and those are still safe D at the local level, and they managed to hold the State House until very recently too. Not to mention being able to deliver the state to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary, contrasted with West Virginia. (Although granted a big reason for this is Kentucky is more urbanized than people think, it contains two major cities and a significant chunk of the metro of a third.)