One incumbent is seen as the very embodiment of Georgia's Republican Party establishment. Another defended the Ku Klux Klan. A third was arrested on charges of drunken driving in the middle of the day, a gun on his hip and four teenagers in the car.

What do they all have in common? They are all incumbent politicians who won re-election last week despite the anti-establishment wave sweeping the nation.

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