The "best men" during the Gilded Age believed that politics was corrupt because, for example,
a. each year brought fewer accounts of bribery in state or national election contests
b. election fraud only occurred in cities with large immigrant populations
c. the independent thinkers were inclined to see corruption, even if they exaggerated the facts
d. some of them were found guilty of bribery
C
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