[ noun ] a person active in party politics <noun.person>
This may help explain the stand he sometimes takes against the pro-Israel lobby. "Bob is the kind of pol who says, "You beat on me, I'll beat on you,'" says a House Democrat.
Mr. Hentoff portrays a bluff, worldly, old-style pol, with a common touch and a simple heart.
Rep. Rostenkowski took the latter, in part to rise above the image of a big-city ward pol.
Since assuming the Treasury post, Mr. Baker has tried to shake the perception that he is merely another Washington "pol."
Rep. Frank Annunzio, a rough-hewn Chicago machine pol who is the third-ranking committee member, is in frail health and isn't likely to seek the chairmanship.
But there dwells within him the soul of an old-fashioned, cigar-chomping Democratic pol, a veritable Tip O'Neill," said Oliver.