[First, a cheap plug for my blog
Senate Guru.]
Here are some more Q1 figures for Senate candidates:
Nebraska:
Scott Kleeb (D): $274,454 raised in last five weeks of Q1, $281,094 CoH
Tony Raimondo (D): $72,620 raised in last eight weeks of Q1 plus a $100,000 self-contribution, $140,720 CoH
Mike Johanns (R): $641,722 raised in Q1, $1.33 million CoH
Alaska:
Mark Begich (D) exploratory effort: “nearly $260,000 in the last month”
Ted Stevens (R): $540,000 raised in Q1, $1.3 million CoH
Minnesota:
Al Franken (D): $2.2 million raised in Q1, $3.5 million CoH
Norm Coleman (R): $2 million raised in Q1, $7 million CoH
Note: This is the fourth consecutive fundraising quarter that Franken has outraised Coleman.
New Mexico:
Tom Udall (D): $1.3 million
Note: This figure is about 30% higher than his Q4-2007 take of about $1 million, which was still more than the Q4-2007 figures for Republican Congresscritters Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce combined.
Iowa:
Tom Harkin (D): $778,000 raised in Q1
Mississippi-B:
Roger Wicker (R): $3 million raised in Q1, $2.75 million CoH
Not bad for Kleeb – Nebraska’s not an expensive state for political campaigns. No one can expect him to keep pace with Johanns’ fundraising (not all that impressive anyway). Unsurprisingly, Raimondo looks to have little homegrown support. Question: how many primary defeats will it take to get Chucky Schumer to work with us instead of against us? Do you think if Lunsford (I know – a longshot), Raimondo, and Merkley are defeated he’ll learn something?
is the best candidate we could come up with after DeFazio and Blumenauer both passed on the race — Novick is a joke and Smith would greatly enjoy handing his ass to him on a platter — and will be able to do it rather easily………
How does a politician from Mississippi raise three million dollars in one quarter? That’s pretty impressive.
the DSCC is pushing his race very aggressively.
It would be nice if Harkin would give some of his to more competitive races.
That’s the point I keep trying to make. Torridjoe constantly refers to the one poll in the last few months as God given scientific fact. And by your post, it looks like you keep refering to it the same way.
per campaign press release. 195K on hand, after 133K TV buy. Total raised now @ 900K.
Go to the map on the FEC page and click a state and you will get statewide House totals for each party. The FEC also runs national totals for both Senate and House.
As of now, many of these numbers are still for 12/31. One state that looks pretty complete for the first quarter is Pennsylvania. Semocrats have “only” raised $4 million more for the House races, have spent the same and hold a huge edge in cash on hand of more than $8 million at $13,661,852 to $1,835,667. Kanjorski looks home free expanding his edge to $1.7 million over anti-immigration flash in the pan Lou Barletta from $1.5 million three months ago. No numbers for Joe Sestak but he always seems to have plenty of money but have a reporting problem (no district assigned, I think).
and there’s an MSM link to refer to now.
Novick 346K, 889K total, 195K CoH after 133K TV buy (smart, because they’re jacking up the rates now for Obama and Hillary)
Merkley 453K, 1.37mil total, 474K CoH (buys still unknown, as to timing)
from his campaign press release:
Great news he has hit $1,000,000. This puts him ahead of the game.