The FEC's April 15th deadline for candidates to file their first quarter fundraising reports has come and gone, and now it's SSP's turn to rake together all the interesting numbers for House incumbents and the (very few) challengers who have filed.
As always, all numbers are in thousands and are adjusted for rounding. "CoH" indicates cash-on hand, and the "Raised" column contains strictly funds raised through donor contributions, not loans. An "X" in the "Frontline" column indicates a Democratic incumbent's participation in the DCCC's Frontline program.
A few quick notes:
The average amount raised by a Frontline participant was $255K, with each member having an average CoH of $269K.
The biggest raiser of the Frontline class was John Adler, who raked in $461K. The weakest? Carol Shea-Porter, who only took in $111K. She never makes our lives easy...
Challengers who outraised incumbents: Beth Krom (D, CA-48), Steve Chabot (R, OH-01) and Jack McDonald (D, TX-10).
Fuel for the retirement watch: Check out the weak hauls of GOP Reps. Henry Brown ($22K), Frank Wolf ($2K) and Bill Young ($1K). Delaware's Mike Castle will want to pump up the volume now that he's facing a top-tier challenger, but he's also sitting on a fairly hefty war chest.
ID-01: Bill "Brain Fade" Sali, who is supposedly mulling a rematch with Democrat Walt Minnick, brought in nothing -- and he's still carrying about $100,000 worth of debts from his previous two campaigns. Not exactly an encouraging sign for those of us who love to have Sali to kick around.
LA-02: Joe Cao raises $143K, but only banks $61K at the end of the quarter. Not impressive at all -- but even if he was raking in Mark Kirk-like sums per quarter, he'd still lose. So what's the point?
