1.   Led by Paul Manafort, they came of age in politics as partners of the late Lee Atwater, the master of modern wedge politics.

2.   Perhaps it was the wedge politics practiced by the late Republican, Lee Atwater.

3.   ------ Out with wedge politics.

4.   The convention featured a lot of talk about ending the politics of division -- or wedge politics -- but very little about underwear.