NEW ORLEANS — Republican Senator David Vitter survived a 2007 prostitution scandal and has shrugged off fresh questions about his judgment in allowing an aide to remain on his staff for more than two years after a violent attack on a woman.
Vitter has been dogged by questions about his personal life. Yet in a GOP year and in a GOP-leaning state, the incumbent is on track to win tomorrow’s primary against two little-known Republicans.
With little competition from his own party, he has focused on Democratic US Representative Charlie Melancon, his likely opponent in November.
The two are engaged in a war of attack ads, with Melancon running one that touches on Vitter’s 2007 admission of an unspecified “serious sin’’ after his phone number appeared in the records of a Washington prostitution ring.

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