WASHINGTON — Last Friday, a grand jury in Travis County, Texas, indicted the state’s Republican Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts of abuse of power. Normally such an action would hamper the forward progress of a politician with dreams of higher office, which in Governor Perry’s case has been the White House. But is it possible that these charges could actually give Perry a boost? That’s what some D.C. politicos are muttering this late-summer Monday.

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