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The prospect of a brokered Republican convention has reared its head — with the re-emergence of conservative lightning rod Sarah Palin as a GOP savior — as the controversial Alaskan said she’d be willing to “help” if her party can’t choose a nominee ahead of the August rubber- stamp event. But even with the rollicking Republican primary roller coaster looking more like a trainwreck, political experts and players are split over the likelihood of a late-summer nailbiter. Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics.com said that if the current trend of stark regional divides continues — with Mitt Romney taking more moderate states,...

So Rove was cutting deals with the Tea Party to try to get O'Donnell out of this primary race. And we know that Armey endorsed Castle. Were Armey and Rove a team?

WASHINGTON -- A South Korean embassy official who met with fund-raisers for John F. Kerry to talk about creating a political group for Korean-Americans was a spy for his country, South Korean and US officials said.. Officials said Chung Byung-Man, a consular officer in Los Angeles, worked for South Korea's National Intelligence Service when he met with Kerry fund-raisers.