Primary day in New Hampshire, New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin (as well as Delaware, Rhode Island, and Vermont) is on September 9th, and midnight tonight is the deadline for congressional candidates to file their fundraising reports with the FEC. We’re rounding up all the numbers as they come in in the handy chart below. All numbers are in thousands, and cover the period of July 1st through August 20th:
We’ll fill in the blanks in real time — as best we can.
Special note: look at how pathetic Robert Straniere is in NY-13. $15K raised for his campaign, total? This guy is truly hated and unloved in Staten Island. What a D-grade sadsack loser of a candidate for the GOP.
leading the pack again. He’s turning into a good candidate. Outraised Paulsen the last two times now. Almost one million CoH.
Massa’s take was pretty impressive too, while Maffei spent huge, almost 600 thousand dollars? What is trying to do, deliver a knockout punch early? I would really like to see a poll there, as I haven’t seen one since Sweetland’s ridiculous poll he released right after he got in showing only like 36% of voters commited to voting for Maffei when he got 49% last time running against a moderately popular eleven term incumbent. Poll also showed him having something like only 50% name rec. among likely voters, after spending nearly one million on his campaign last time. We need to demand a new poll here, from somebody, SUSA or Reserach 2000, either one. DAvid, maybe you could make some suggestions to Markos next time Dkos pays for another round of polling.
For example, as of 7:30 PM Central time today, Kagen and Gard of Wisconsin both still had only the 2Q reports (through 6/30) posted on the FEC website, unless I am looking in the wrong place.
It is a terrific open seat battle among four contenders for a Democratic-held open seat in the Albany area. The Albany Project has been covering it at some length. So far, three of the four have filed reports: Paul Tonko, Phil Steck, and Darius Shahinfur. Amazingly, the longshot Shahinfur has been raising cash and has the biggest COH total of the three ($192 K).
Tracy Brooks has yet to file but she’s running her third ad of the cycle. Steck has the first attack ad. Everybody has endorsements.
What’s with Kagen? Is he not bothering to do fundraising and spending his own money again?
Massa is kicking Kuhl’s ass in fundraising. I really think this is his race to lose.
Nice to see Powers putting up good numbers.
Dominate those two goopers, you diva!
1. Shea-Porter’s demise is greatly exaggerated. The queen of not raising money is raising more money then her opponents. They will have a bloody primary, her party will be unified, it’s a democratic leaning year and a democratic leaning district.
2. McMahon is going to crush Harrison, sadly. Thankfully he will blow out his opponent in November and hold the seat forever.
3. What’s the deal with Hall?
4. Gillibrand is going to BLOW out Tredwell, same with Maffei.
5. I’m really worried about Jack Davis. He’s spending tons of money, Powers is sitting on his money. If Davis has a semi-decent ad designer he will win.
6. I’m feeling really good about Eric Massa’s chances, cant wait to see his ads.
7. A Minnesota take on Minnesota’s races. Walz is running a amazing campaign and will win easily. Madia is doing very impressive stuff, has a great ad campaign and is well poised to win. Sarvi and Tinklenberg will do better then Walz’s opponents but don’t look like they are going to win. I think Tinklenberg has a slight chance beacuse Bachmann is Bachmann and things can change but you’ve got to raise more money then that to beat Kline.
8. Kagen is going to need to drop a cool million or two to hold off Gard.
That’s good news about Madia, but in Minnesota we have a small chance to sweep the House delegation. Moreover, one of our incumbents is Michele Bachmann. Please help end our embarrassment and help Tinklenberg catch up in the cash race. Steve Sarvi too could be a strong candidate if he gets the resources.
or did I also miss some news about him dropping out or something?