Tuesday saw high-profile primaries in five states, and the last big primary days of the year comes on September 14 seven states will choose their major-party congressional nominees. Flying under the radar are Louisiana and West Virginia, which hold their primaries on Saturday. In Louisiana, the contenders for one Senate seat and seven House seats will be chosen. And in West Virginia, Republican and Democratic candidates will be nominated for the office vacated by the death of longtime Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd.
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Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter is defending the seat he won by a 22-point margin in 2004. Since then, Vitter has enmeshed in two high-profile scandals. In 2007, he was connected to a Washington, DC, prostitution ring run by the so-called “DC Madam.” Then earlier this year it came to light that a Vitter staffer had been allowed to remain on staff after pleading guilty in 2008 to attacking an ex-girlfriend with a knife. 

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