After the third quarter fundraising deadline, there’s one more report that candidates running for the House must file with the FEC: the pre-general fundraising report covering the period from October 1st through October 15th. DavidNYC and I have rounded up all the key numbers in this handy chart below (all figures are in thousands):
Note: Instead of listing totals raised by each campaign, we’ve gone with the broader category of receipts (which includes transfers, loans and the like).
I have a funny feeling that guy’s next report is going to be better.
That must be Grayson tapping his own bank account.
She raised four times as much as Mean Jean. Markey, Himes, and Seals are still raising gobs of cash. Goode and Drake look to be circling the drain in a state going for Obama.
Wow, it looks like Treadwell threw a lot of his own money into his race against Gillibrand in NY-20. Fortunately, while money is necessary to run a race, it’s not sufficient to win–otherwise we’d have seen several self-financed senators from CA. (Not that Gillibrand has been a laggard in the fundraising department, with $4.4 million raised as of the end of Sept.)
Are they still determining how to ripoff more of those donations before they report?
CA-03, FL-08, FL-21, FL-25, GA-06 (WOW), ID-01 (WOW), IL-10, IL-14 (bang!), IN-04, KS-02, LA-01 (WOW), LA-07 (wow), MD-06 (my college tuition cost more than that combined!), NC-05 (seems like Carter is really putting a real, serious effort into this), NC-10, NC-11 (Mumpower to do worse than Biggert’s opponent, lol), NV-02, NV-03, OH-02 (whoa!), OH-07 (getting there!), OH-14 (low cash beating?), SC-01 (WHOA), TX-07 (wow, beating the R in Texas!), VA-02,05,10 (great job; keep it going!), WV-02
Treadwell’s (NY-20) number is eye-popping.
Luetkemeyer (MO-09) just cut himself another 300K plus check from his own pockets bringing his self-funding over a million dollars.
In MO-09 it’s a sign of what kind of wave election this is that a Republican candidate has to self-fund a million dollars just to keep financial pace with the Democratic candidate in a mostly rural, conservative Bush +19 district.