| Just as we did for the House race scene (and as we did last quarter), we present our rankings according to the SSP Cash Power Index for competitive senate races. The main difference is that we include open seats in this chart; where there is no incumbent senator, the incumbent party candidate is used as a stand-in.
Note that the number of races on this list is a lot smaller than last time; that's because some folks have lost primaries, and also because we've left off the races which, at this point, are not competitive. So while it might look like Rick Noriega, say, has jumped a bunch, that's at least in part because the likes of Greg Fischer and Tony Raimondo aren't around anymore. Also, Tom Udall was previously ranked twice because he faced two primary opponents at the time.
UPDATE: Chart updated to reflect inclusion of KS-Sen.
Cash
Power
Rank | 1Q
Rank | State | Challenger | Party | CoH | Incumbent | Party | CoH | Cash
Power
Index | | 1 | 1 | VA | Warner | D | $5,103 | Gilmore | R | $117 | 4,362% | | 2 | 2/3 | NM | Udall, T. | D | $2,889 | Pearce | R | $533 | 542% | | 3 | 4 | CO | Udall, M. | D | $3,958 | Schaffer | R | $2,817 | 141% | | 4 | 5 | ME | Allen | D | $3,129 | Collins | R-inc. | $5,133 | 61% | | 5 | 6 | MN | Franken | D | $4,216 | Coleman | R-inc. | $7,209 | 58% | | 6 | 9 | LA | Kennedy | R | $2,706 | Landrieu | D-inc. | $5,515 | 49% | | 7 | 13 | AK | Begich | D | $804 | Stevens | R-inc. | $1,681 | 48% | | 8 | 18 | NC | Hagan | D | $1,214 | Dole | R-inc. | $2,706 | 45% | | 9 | 8 | NH | Shaheen | D | $2,158 | Bununu | R-inc. | $5,105 | 42% | | 10 | 12 | NE | Kleeb | D | $454 | Johanns | R | $1,247 | 36% | | 11 | (n/a) | NJ | Zimmer | R | $411 | Lautenberg | D-inc. | $1,291 | 32% | | 12 | 11 | OK | Rice | D | $748 | Inhofe | R-inc. | $2,459 | 30% | | 13 | 15 | MS | Musgrove | D | $716 | Wicker | R-inc. | $2,953 | 24% | | 14 | (n/a) | ID | Rammell | I | $244 | Risch | R | $1,022 | 24% | | 15 | 10 | ID | LaRocco | D | $242 | Risch | R | $1,022 | 24% | | 16 | 19 | KS | Slattery | D | $599 | Roberts | R-inc. | $2,870 | 21% |
| 17 | 22 | KY | Lunsford | D | $1,341 | McConnell | R-inc. | $9,136 | 15% | | 18 | 20 | OR | Merkley | D | $569 | Smith | R-inc. | $4,452 | 13% | | 19 | 26 | TX | Noriega | D | $916 | Cornyn | R-inc. | $9,368 | 10% | | 20 | 21 | GA | Martin | D | $330 | Chambliss | R-inc. | $4,055 | 8% | | 21 | (n/a) | GA | Jones | "D" | $150 | Chambliss | R-inc. | $4,055 | 4% |
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