Teflon leader: Party's big loss won't tarnish Merkel's image
By FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel will leave office in the coming months with her popularity intact among voters and widely admired beyond Germany as a chancellor who deftly steered her country, and Europe, through numerous crises. Her center-right political bloc, on the other hand, is in shambles. The once-dominant Christian Democratic Union and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian