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But it turned out that Vitter's prostitution scandal was not safely in the past—not at all. Head below the fold to find out what went wrong for him, and why Democrats may be able to capitalize next month. That put Vitter in top position to succeed the term-limited Jindal this year, and polls throughout the campaign showed him far ahead of his two Republican rivals, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle. State Rep.

I've long argued that Bernie Sanders' national ceiling is 30 percent, and at 28.7 percent in the polling composite, he's close to either proving me right or wrong. Unfortunately for him, Hillary Clinton has also seen a big rise innumbers as well, from 44.3 percent in the composite in late September, to 54.5 percent just a month later.All told, in the past month, Clinton is up 10 and Sanders is up about 3 1/2. Interestingly, Clinton's gains don't seem to have come at the expense of Sanders.

After months of speculation about whether he'd run for president in 2016, Vice President Biden will be speaking early Wednesday afternoon from the Rose Garden at the White House. No word yet on whether he'll be sharing his final decision on that. He will reportedly be accompanied by President Obama. We'll update as there's more information.