Kentucky: Bad portent for the GOP?

While Wisconsin grabbed the national political headlines on Feb. 17, it was another, little-noticed race that really captured the attention of Democrats on Capitol Hill. After a decade of losses in special elections, the Democrats scored a big win in Kentucky—and immediately turned their attention to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ben Chandler, a former Democratic state attorney general who just three months ago lost a bid for the governor's mansion, earned a measure of revenge by winning the vacant congressional seat of Ernie Fletcher, the Republican who trounced him in November's gubernatorial race. "I know what it's like to be on the other side and it feels pretty good to be on this side tonight," Mr. Chandler told a cheering crowd at the National Guard armory in Richmond. "It's been a wild ride for me and my family the last year and a half."

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