Here’s our summary of FEC filings for the quarter that ended on June 30, for the hot Senate races. (House filings are here.) The left column is total receipts for the second quarter. (This is based on slightly different criteria as ‘total raised’ from the House list, as ‘total receipts’ doesn’t include transfers between committees.) The right column is current cash on hand. All dollar amounts are in thousands.
There’s one omission: Kansas reports are not yet available, as their reporting period for 2Q covers April 1 to July 16. One other caveat: Oklahoma covers the period April 1 to July 9, although Rice’s report only runs through June 30. If there are any other races you want to know about, just ask in the comments.
| State | Candidate | Party | 2Q Receipts | CoH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | Mark Begich | D | $1,035 | $804 |
| Alaska | Ted Stevens | R-inc. | $745 | $1,681 |
| Colorado | Bob Schaffer | R | $1,431 | $2,817 |
| Colorado | Mark Udall | D | $2,039 | $3,958 |
| Idaho | Larry LaRocco | D | $233 | $242 |
| Idaho | Rex Rammell | I | $263 | $244 |
| Idaho | Jim Risch | R | $637 | $1,022 |
| Kansas | Pat Roberts | R | $971 | $2,870 |
| Kansas | Jim Slattery | D | $624 | $599 |
| Kentucky | Bruce Lunsford | D | $3,098 | $1,341 |
| Kentucky | Mitch McConnell | R-inc. | $3,021 | $9,136 |
| Louisiana | Mary Landrieu | D-inc. | $1,541 | $5,515 |
| Louisiana | John Kennedy | R | $1,458 | $2,706 |
| Maine | Tom Allen | D | $1,001 | $3,129 |
| Maine | Susan Collins | R-inc. | $1,056 | $5,133 |
| Minnesota | Norm Coleman | R-inc. | $2,390 | $7,209 |
| Minnesota | Al Franken | D | $2,337 | $4,216 |
| Mississippi | Ronnie Musgrove | D | $821 | $716 |
| Mississippi | Roger Wicker | R-inc. | $1,050 | $2,953 |
| Nebraska | Mike Johanns | R | $683 | $1,247 |
| Nebraska | Scott Kleeb | D | $700 | $454 |
| New Hampshire | Jeanne Shaheen | D | $1,630 | $2,158 |
| New Hampshire | John Sununu | R-inc. | $1,135 | $5,105 |
| New Jersey | Frank Lautenberg | D-inc. | $1,849 | $1,291 |
| New Jersey | Dick Zimmer | R | $752 | $411 |
| New Mexico | Steven Pearce | R | $1,209 | $533 |
| New Mexico | Tom Udall | D | $2,168 | $2,889 |
| North Carolina | Elizabeth Dole | R-inc. | $1,690 | $2,706 |
| North Carolina | Kay Hagan | D | $1,538 | $1,214 |
| Oklahoma | Jim Inhofe | R-inc. | $890 | $2,459 |
| Oklahoma | Andrew Rice | D | $452 | $748 |
| Oregon | Jeff Merkley | D | $1,913 | $569 |
| Oregon | Gordon Smith | R-inc. | $1,332 | $4,452 |
| Texas | Big John Cornyn | R-inc. | $1,697 | $9,368 |
| Texas | Rick Noriega | D | $966 | $916 |
| Virginia | Jim Gilmore | R | $480 | $117 |
| Virginia | Mark Warner | D | $2,929 | $5,103 |
Democratic challengers who outraised Republican incumbents for the quarter: Mark Begich (AK), Bruce Lunsford (KY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Jeff Merkley (OR)
Democratic contenders who outraised Republican opponents in open seats: Mark Udall (CO), Scott Kleeb (NE), Tom Udall (NM), and Mark Warner (VA)
Republican challengers who outraised Democratic incumbents: none
Good news almost all around; you have to drop all the way down to Texas to find a Democratic contender who’s lagging in both receipts and cash on hand. One other small thing to note: check out Rex Rammell in Idaho (the conservative independent with a vendetta against Jim Risch). He’s putting his money where his mouth is, and already starting to do TV advertising. If he pulls away significant votes on Risch’s right flank, LaRocco might actually have a shot at Idaho.
Any idea if part of Lunsford’s big total was from his own pocket? That is great if he raised that much without spending his own cash thus far.
Kleeb did very well. SHould the DSCC be looking to expand their map, looks like he is next in line for their help. Out-raised Johanns and only has a 1 : 2.7 cash disparity. He’s in a good spot for being a moonshot race.
*Last DSCC e-mail I got said 11 races to watch with more to come, the may be looking to add a few more. If so, Kleeb just earned his spot.
http://www.rasmussenreports.co…
Poll result is the exact same as last month:
Collins (R)- 49
Allen (D)- 42
Also, Obama over McCain by 10 in Maine.
It’s a shame that Noriega trails BIG JOHN by 10:1 in cash on hand, but then I look over at Virginia and feel better – Warner beating Gillmore by like 50:1. Methinks Warner will have plenty left over for his PAC to lend to Creigh Deeds or whoever our standard bearer is for VA-GOV 2009.
Udall is mistakenly listed as an “R”.
The one with John Barrasso currently holding the seat. Freudenthal is likely to make a run at this in four years, and it would help a lot if we could soften up Barrasso for him now.
Our guy, Nick Carter, raised $26,000 in the first quarter, but I don’t see an update for Q2. Any idea why that is?
$1.9 million means he outraised Shaheen, Begich, Musgrove, Hagan, Allen, and even Mary friggin Landrieu. Given that one of the conventional knocks against him (from Chris Cillizza) was that he couldn’t raise money, that’s good.
Unfortunately, he’s still staring at a 9:1 deficit against Gordon Smith.
He’s also moving himself into the right to benefit from DSCC expenditures though. It’s hard to argue that he should have been able to raise more, or that he should have been able to reach closer parity against a fundraiser like Smith. If he’s keeping up his end of the bargain (finally), then he can credibly ask the DSCC to keep theirs and spend for him.
And yeah, Kleeb had a good quarter too.
Musgrove really should have done better. I realize Mississippi is not a rich state, but still. I’m glad the DSCC is already playing here anyway.
1. I’m with trowaman. Nebraska is clearly the 12th most competitive race now. We’ve known that VA, NM, NH, CO, AK, MS, OR, MN, ME, KY, and NC will be targeted and then there was OK, ID, GA, KS, NE and TX as the longer shots vying for a final spot. Kleeb outraised Johanns. None of the others where close. Rice is the only one who is closer to the incumbents CoH (32 vs 27 percent) and that’s beacuse he started 7 months earlier (and also didn’t have a primary against a self funding multi-millionaire).
Scott Kleeb is the strongest of the more long shots and if the DSCC gets into this race we can win it.
2. Speaking of that. Mark Pryor, Dick Durbin, Joe Biden, Tom Harkin, John Kerry, Carl Levin, Max Baucus, Jack Reed, and Jay Rockerfeller all face little or no opposition this fall. I would hope all of them would like a Senate majority that agreed with them. Well they are sitting on $43,816,895 and growing. That’s more that the DSCC’s current CoH.
Add in the fact that Chuck Schumber and Evan Bayh both have over 10 million in their 2010 bank accounts.
Chuck needs to push hard and get 50 million dollars of that. Imagine that. We could be up on the air in ALL the long shots and the more likely shots RIGHT now.
60 seat majority? Forget about it. How about a 70 seat majority?
Seriously. Those 12 Senators hold the future of America in their election bank accounts. Weather or not they pony up will be a true test of their values.
The most important netroots campaign of 2008 will be Use it or Loose it 2008.
Shaheen’s COH: You say it is just over 2 million.
http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureS… FEC says she has over 4 million.
it’s Stevan Pearce. But everyone just calls him Steve.
Carter’s receipts were $81,250. He has $81,808 cash on hand.
Inhofe has got the 2nd worst COH of Repub incumbents (behind Stevens, who is getting indicted and therefore abandoned by donors). He is not a good fundraiser. Rice has 750K in the bank.
Rice is supposedly going up on TV tomorrow. His name ID problem will be resolved and if his numbers close, this race will be a dogfight.