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Sarah Palin (Gulp!) Still Could Become GOP 2012 Nominee

By Morton M. Kondracke
Roll Call Executive Editor
July 9, 2009, Midnight

It used to be easy to predict who the next Republican presidential nominee would be. It was decided by primogeniture: The next oldest guy in line got to be the king.

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