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ME, SC, VA: Pre-Primary FEC Filing Roundup

by: James L.

Fri May 30, 2008 at 2:01 AM EDT

With congressional primaries in Maine, South Carolina, and Virginia on June 10th, the deadline for candidates to file their pre-primary fundraising reports with the FEC for the period from 4/1 to 5/21 passed at midnight. Let's round-up the numbers from all the hot races (all figures are subject to rounding and listed in the thousands; loans not included):

"Under the radar" races are my favorite, so let's take a look at SC-01 and SC-02, two deeply red seats with surprisingly strong Democratic challengers.

In SC-01, businesswoman/civic leader Linda Ketner has raised ($430K) and spent ($398K) quite a bit money so far. She's also loaned her campaign $350,000 so far. This is some serious money for an R+9.6 district -- and she needs to be posting these kinds of figures, when the incumbent is sitting on $1.3 million cash on hand.

Also impressive is SC-02's Rob Miller. An Iraq vet, Miller entered the race in March and has raised nearly $200K and lent his campaign an additional $100K. Again, very respectable scrilla for an R+8.9 district.

James L. :: ME, SC, VA: Pre-Primary FEC Filing Roundup