As promised, our team of researchers over at SSP Labs have culled all of the noteworthy third quarter fundraising numbers for 2010’s hot (and not-so-hot) House races.
Here’s our full chart, but if you happen to catch something that we missed, please let us know in the comments. (2Q numbers are here.)
An asterisk (*) indicates that the amount raised includes a substantial candidate self-donation (as opposed to loans, which we as a rule do not include in the “raised” column). “YG” refers to the NRCC’s Young Guns initiative — the GOP’s version of “Red to Blue”.
Normally I rattle off a list of observations and offer some general number crunching, but I’ll leave that up to you this time. Enjoy.
Tom Hayhurst raised $93,596, a respectable haul for someone who only got in the race six weeks before the filing deadline.
His opponent, Republican incumbent Mark Souder, raised a lot more: $227,300. But for some reason I don’t understand, Souder’s been burning through that money like old newspaper, and he’s only got half of it left.
You have Teague and Pearce listed with exactly the same numbers across the board. Surely that can’t be right…
And in NM-03, it’s a relief to learn that Ron Paul affiliate and teabagger Adam Kokesh, an antiwar Republican, raised only $104,075 (and burned through nearly three-quarters of it), while the incumbent, Ben Lujan, raised 384,595.
VA-01: Rob Wittman raised $161k with $298k on hand. He has two Democratic opponents. Krystal Ball (no, seriously), a software developer, raised $194k with $206k on hand. Scott Robinson, a retired Army Colonel, raised $173k with $139k on hand.
VA-02: Two other reports for Republicans, not that they’ll get anywhere. Ed Maulbeck raised $10k with $22k on hand. Chuck Smith, my favorite joke candidate, raised a whopping $1,355.00 with $582.35 left.
VA-04: Shame we have no bench here. Forbes only raised $51k this period with $161k on hand.
VA-05: Perriello’s current pipsqueak opponents will be no match for Robert Hurt, it seems. Albemarle County Supervisor Kenneth Boyd raised $11k and spent nothing, while Laurence Verga, a real estate investor and “Constitonalist”, gave himself $50k but burned through all of it (paid half of it back to himself and spent most of the rest), leaving him with $5k on hand. Incidentally, Bradley Rees, one of the pipsqueaks that hasn’t reported, has threatened to run as an independent if the NRCC makes Hurt the anointed candidate. He probably wouldn’t get more than 1-2% of the vote, but every vote siphoned from the Republican would help.
VA-07: Cantor raised $370k with $920k on hand. His opponent, Charlie Diradour, loaned himself some money, but only raised $7,515, with $61k on hand.
VA-09: Boucher is battening down the hatches in case Terry Kilgore or another serious Republican runs against him. He raised $207k, and has a whopping $1.7 million on hand.
VA-11: Repeat challenger Keith Fimian raised $234k (plus a $50k loan) ending up with $258k on hand.
it would be cool to see the cash on hand changes. it seems like some people are really spending a lot more than others at this point.
AZ-08: Giffords’ only current opponent, Jesse Kelly, ramped up his campaign (relatively speaking), raising $115k with $120k on hand.
NC-08: Republican businessman Tim D’Annunzio loaned himself $300k, raised $12k, and ended up with $260k on hand.
NY-13: Republican Michael Allegretti raised $189k with $155k on hand.
OH-16: Republican businessman Jim Renacci (what is with all these Italian Republicans?) raised $204k with $202k on hand.
OH-18: Bunch of third-tier Republican candidates here: ’08 nom Fred Dailey raised $45k with $71k on hand, former magistrate Jeannette Moll raised $31k with $70k on hand, and State Sen. Bob Gibbs raised $115k with $113k on hand.
PA-06: Republican businessman Steven Welch loaned himself $500k, raised $60k, and ended up with $511k on hand.
RI-02: Jim Langevin raised $175k with $367k on hand; primary challenger Elizabeth Dennigan raised $14k, loaned herself $100k, and ended up with $109k on hand.
To be into politics so much that I actually enjoy going through quarterly Congressional fudnrasing numbers just makes me even happier.
My rep (Tim Bishop) is going to have to step it up this time around with a self funder going against him. He’s won by large margins the last 2 times around, but his district is the definition of 51/49.
Democratic Incumbents outraised:
AR-02, MO-03, NC-08, NM-02, NY-01, NY-19, OH-15, PA-12, TN-04, TN-08, VA-02
Republican Incumbents outraised:
CA-03, CA-50, FL-10, MO-08, PA-15, TX-10, WA-08
Democratic Open Seats Outraised:
HI-01
Republican Open Seats Outraised:
IL-10, KS-04, PA-06
Initial Thoughts:
Impressive numbers from Tarryl Clark (MN-06), Ami Berra (CA-03), Hamos (IL-10), Tom White (NE-02), Ann Kuster (NH-02), Doug Pike (PA-06), Bryan Lentz (PA-07), John Callahan (PA-15). I like our chances to consolidate our support before redistricting this season. I think Democrats suffered third quarter, poor messaging on health care and as a result, a lot of bad media. To see decent numbers out of most our candidates is very encouraging. I think we weathered the storm.
I commented on this late last night: http://www.swingstateproject.c…
Basically, no one seems to be putting in a big challenge to Marshall and Barrow. GA-02 may deserve watchlist considerations, but I’m not worried. Linder’s fundraising in GA-07 is really curious.
Is Ed Case really our only candidate in HI-01? Please god/James say it ain’t so. We have to have someone better than Case.
Why is not one talking about this race!?!? This could be a major pick-up if someone actually talked about it!!! Orange county is slowly turning purple, and being forced to have a congressman with integrity such as Bill Hedrick as opposed to corrupt as shit Ken Calvert would at least change southern orange county’s voting habits somewhat. I’ll admit I haven’t donated any money to Hendricks campaign yet, but merely because I have no credit card/money being in college.
I really urge anyone who is reading this to donate at least something to this race. Obama won this district, and I’d hate to see it stay red congressionaly.
Bright and Griffith might end up being ok. Vic Snyder will be fine when he starts. Ami Bera is one to watch. Ditto Steve Pougnet and Raj Goyle. Jerry McNerney looks safe. Bill Hedrick, Charlie Justice, Beth Krom, Lori Edwards, Chris Craft and Paula Flowers are very disappointing. Van Tran and Charles Djou have been over-hyped. Looks like an opportunity exists to avoid another Francine Busby debacle. Dan Seals has a fight on his hands. FL-22 is looking expensive again. The Diaz-Balart boys need opponents. Jim Marshall needs to ramp it up. Put Roscoe Bartlett on retirement watch. Gary Peters looks safe. So does Ciro. Shame Tommy Sowers isn’t running next door. Larry Kissell needs to ramp it up. So does John Hall and John Tanner. John Adler looks safe. Harry Teague is in trouble.
Are they just taking their time putting candidates on their list or did the program stop?
I dont get Charlie Justice’s problem and I feel like its more of a problem that the campaign could directly cite than, he just sucks at fundraising.
I have a feeling Young not choosing to retire makes many of the people who should be donating quite apprehensive about it, why bother donating to someone when you think Young has the district locked down until he retires?
While I commend Charlie for taking the pro-active approach to challenging him (and probably trying to force him into retirement), I hope that him probably losing doesnt mean the end to his runs at Young’s seat.
Is Justice up for re-election this cycle and thus if he loses, he’s out of an elected position?