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I'd say (purely in the McDonalds context) that it's a suggestion that no matter how scrupulously fair and well-run / judged the event was, and how deserving the winner, the more cynical elements of the viewing public would be very inclined to believe that something underhand went on. It implies nothing about actual conspiracy being the reality - the reverse, if anything.
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