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Topic: 2015 elections

(AP/Timothy D. Easley)

Meet Kentucky's crazy new guv

Rae Hodge
(AP/Gerald Herbert/Reuters/John Sommers II)

GOP's short-lived triumph

Sean Illing
(Kentucky Educational Television)

Bluegrass stunner

Luke Brinker
(Reuters/Sean Gardner)

David Vitter lurches to defeat

Sean Illing
(AP/Reuters/Jonathan Bachman/Joshua Roberts/ChrisTyson2015.com)

GOP's chickens are roosting

Sean Illing
(Reuters/Sean Gardner)

Vitter's Louisiana nightmare

Sean Illing
Rahm Emanuel (Reuters/Jim Young/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-853072p1.html'>marchello74</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Photo montage by Salon)

Rahm Emanuel's Achilles' heel

Carl Gibson
Rahm Emanuel, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (Reuters/Yuri Gripas/AP/Kiichiro Sato)

Rahm's political nightmare

Edward McClelland