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1 October 2010updated 27 Sep 2015 5:41am

Exit Rahm Emanuel. Enter “Mr Fixer“

Obama must do without the man he used to start and end his day with.

By Felicity Spector

He was the tactician-in-chief who’s had a hand in almost every aspect of Democratic politics at the highest level for the last four years. But now Rahm Emanuel is stepping down as White House chief of staff, as he returns to the rather different rough and tumble of big-city Chicago politics — chasing what he’s called his “dream job” as the city’s next mayor.

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