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Karl Rove

American political consultant
Also known as: Karl Christian Rove
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Karl Rove (born December 25, 1950, Denver, Colorado, U.S.) is an American political consultant and principal architect of United States President George W. Bush’s two presidential election campaigns (2000, 2004). Rove was political even as a young child. He pasted campaign stickers for Richard M. Nixon on his bicycle in 1960, and while in high school he volunteered for Wallace Bennett’s senatorial campaign. Though he attended the University of Utah and other colleges, he did...

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