Tea Party-Backed Super-PAC is Latest Challenge to Rove

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Tea Party leaders have established a super-political action committee that will counter political strategist Karl Rove’s effort to get Republicans to nominate candidates he views as electable.

The Real Conservatives National Committee has been set up to fund voter-identification efforts and grassroots organizing designed to support candidates favored by the anti-tax Tea Party leaders in party primaries. The efforts will include targeting incumbent Republicans Tea Party activists want to defeat.