Manchin easily won the Democratic nomination Saturday. Raese defeated a crowded field of Republicans and becomes part of the GOP quest to dismantle the Democratic Senate majority as high unemployment and the slow economic recovery threaten their political prospects this fall.
In Louisiana, scandal-tainted US Senator David Vitter, a Republican, easily beat two little-known challengers and will meet Democratic Representative Charlie Melancon, who won his party’s primary, in November.
Vitter survived a 2007 prostitution scandal after he admitted an unspecified “serious sin’’ after his phone number appeared in the records of a Washington prostitution ring. He has also shrugged off 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 police identified as his former girlfriend.
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