This is from the FEC website up to the end of the second quarter (June 30). A lot of Democrats are doing very well in fundraising.  

The first figure posted is the total as of June 30, the second figure  posted in brackets is as of March 31, the third figure is December 31.  I posted both so you can see how well they did in the quarter. If no previous number has been posted it's because the candidtate hadn't entered at that date.

I've broken the candidates down into a few categories, they are strictly my opinion.  This is just House candidates, not U.S Senate candidates.

I hope nobody thinks I'm a Republican troll for posting this.  We're supposed to be the side that believes that honest criticizm is patriotic and the right thing to do.

I hadn't thought about this, but a Republican troll in some discussion blog brought it up and, after thinking about it for a few minutes, I thought he might actually have a point.

It seems that Obama is somebody who, at least at times, can be rolled.

1.He refused to wear a flagpin, calling it 'false patriotism' or 'cheap patriotism'.  It was brought up in that sham of a debate, and now he wears one.

2.He was going to stand by his church.  He took a bit of extra heat over it, and then he quit.

3.McCain bashes him for not going to Iraq, now it seems he's planning to go some time in the summer. (maybe Obama was always planning to go, and it was a false charge to begin with, I don't know)

4.He makes it a point of pride to ignore Fox 'News'.  They bash him over it, and suddenly he's on the Chris Wallace Show.

I don't know if this would even be much of a campaign issue, but it is actually maybe something to worry about should he get elected President.  If he folds over these things, how will he stand up to the Republican loudmouths in Congress?

This is from the FEC website up to the end of the first quarter.  The numbers have been there for awhile but I just got around to checking them out.  A lot of Democrats are doing very well in fundraising.  

The first figure posted is the total as of March 31, the second figure  posted in brackets is as of December 31.  I posted both so you can see how well they did in the quarter.  When only one number is posted it's as of March 31.  No previous number would be posted in most cases because the candidate hadn't entered the race as of December 31.  

I've broken the candidates down into a few categories, they are strictly my opinion.  This is just House candidates, not U.S Senate candidates.

The deadline to file to run for Congress is in April in the following states and we still need candidates: Tennessee, Alabama, New Jersey, Virgina.  To be sure, I can't find reports of who has filed in those states, but checking the information from the reliable sources (Swing State Project, politics1), nobody has filed for the following districts:

Tennessee (filing deadline April 3)
1.Tennessee 2
2.Tennessee 3
3.Tennessee 7

Alabama (filing deadline April 4)
1.Alabama 6

New Jersey (filing deadline April 7)
1.New Jersey 2

Virginia (filing deadline April 11)
1.Virginia 1

Let's leave no Wingnut unchallenged!

Though I don't think I know more than the people who live in the district, I've been analyzing the Congressional races from the start of the cycle.  I realize that the Democrats have limited resources and cant' target everywhere, but I think there are some more districts that merit consideration.

I can't find anything on the Secretary of State's website, so I gathered all this from newspaper reports.  If anybody knows of any errors or additions, please tell.

1st District
Democrats
Mike Thompson, incumbent
Mitch Clogg

Republicans
Doug Pharr
Zane Starkewolf

2nd District
Democrats
Jeff Morris, Trinity County Supervisor
John Jacobson
A.J Sekhon, 2006 nominee

Republicans
Wally Herger, Incumbent

3rd District
Democrats
Bill Durston, 2006 nominee

Republicans
Dan Lungren, Incumbent

4th District (open seat)
Democrats
Charlie Brown, 2006 nominee

Republicans
Tom McClintock, State Senator (in a different part of the state)
Doug Ose, Former Congressperson
Theodore Terbolizard

Not sure if this is final.  To check yourself go to the Oregon Secretary of State website, then click on the Orestar thing, then click on Representative in Congress in the "filing for office of:" section.

1st District
Democrats
David Wu
Mark Welyczko
Will Hobbs

Republicans
Claude William Chappell IV
Joel Haugen

2nd District
Democrats
Noah Lemas
Sabrina Shrake

Republicans
Greg Walden

3rd District
Democrats
Earl Blumenauer
John Sweeney
Joseph Walsh

Republicans
Delia Lopez

4th District
Democrats
Peter A. DeFazio

5th District
Democrats
Andrew Foster
Steve Marks
Nancy Moran
Richard Nathe
Kurt Schrader

Republicans
Mike Erickson
Kevin Mannix  
Richard (RJ) Wilson

Total: 21 candidates

There are 6 special elections coming up in the next few weeks/months.  4 of them are previous Republican held seats, 2 of them Democratic.  The Saturday Illinois 14 race is mentioned on the front page.  However, I don't think the special elections have received as much attention as they should have.  There have been no mention here of the 2 Louisiana special election primaries also on Saturday or of the Indiana special election on Tuesday.

There has been too much with the presidential primaries which divide us, and not enough on defeating Republicans which unites us!

Because presidential primaries are overrated.

Ohio Congressional Predictions

2nd District
Democrats
Victoria Wulsin over Steve Black and William Smith

Republicans
Jean Schmidt over Tom Brinkman and Nathan Bailey

3rd District
Democrats
Jane Mitakides over David Esrati and Charlie Sanders

5th District
Republicans
Robert Latta over Scott Radcliffe and Michael Reynolds

7th District
Democrats
Sharen Swartz Neuhardt over William Conner, Jack Null, Thomas Scrivens, David Woolever and Richard Wyderski

Republicans
Steve Austria over Dan Harkins, Ron Hood and John Mitchel

Along with some other insignificant race in Texas (the Presidential primary :D), the Congressional races are tomorrow.  Keep in mind, these are just my predictions, I'm not saying who I'd prefer to see win, and I'm not an expert on any of the races, so I could easily be wrong.  My record of predictions so far in the previous Congressional races in Illinois and Maryland is 21 out of 30.

Good luck to all the candidates.

From Coast to Coast website: Film Producer of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Mark Mathis will discuss his years researching how academia has completely excluded any views other than the Darwinian explanation of how life began.

He will be on from 11PM to 2AM Pacific Time.  
Phone numbers to call in and rebut his arguments are here:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/...

Coast to Coast claims to have anywhere from 2 to 10 million listeners a night in the United States, so this isn't just some small dog and pony show.

I've previously posted the Illinois, Maryland, Ohio, Texas, Kentucky, West Virgina (minus the U.S Senate race) and Mississippi list of candidates.  The primaries have been held in Illinois and Maryland.  Ohio and Texas primaries are March 4, the same day as the presidential primaries. Mississippi is March 11

Ohio is here: http://www.dailykos.com/...

Texas is here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...

Kentucky, West Virginia and Mississippi is here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...

I think there are two components to the 'negative' campaign against John McCain.  Tie him to George W. Bush and go after his history of poor judgement.

First, about negative campaigning.  I don't have a problem with candidates scrutinizing the character and the records of their opponents. That, as far as I'm concerned, is part of what campaigns are supposed to be about.  Where is goes over the line is when candidates engage in distorting or telling outright lies about there opponents, such as the Swift Boat liars.

New Reuters/Zogby poll

Obama 52%
Clinton 38%

Obama 47%
McCain 40%

McCain 50%
Clinton 38%

http://www.reuters.com/...

We'll see if this is confirmed by other polls.  I don't know much about the credibility of Reuters/Zogby.  The presidential poll numbers are consistent with other numbers I've seen, although Hillary Clinton is certainly trailing McCain by a bigger margin than in most other polls.
I wouldn't normally post a poll without much comment, but I thought it would make for an interesting way to start the day.

Anybody know when the other polls are supposed to come out?

This diary is informed by the opinions of Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria and the compiler of the Rating the President's series (I keep forgetting his name, he was on the KGO on President's day on the John Rothman show which I diaried earlier).

Zakaria's view is that Hillary Clinton is too much afraid of Republican attacks to act boldly. http://www.newsweek.com/...

KGO is a radio station in San Francisco.  The Host is John Rothman who is a presidential and vice presidential historian.  He is a self described liberal Democrat who, as a young man, worked for a while in the Nixon Administration before resigning over Nixon's actions.

His show tonight, from 1 AM to 6 AM Pacific Time will discuss politics, but it will also focus on various former Presidents with commentary and sound clips (In addition to being a historian Mr Rothman is an archivist with sound clips of Presidents going all the way back to Grover Cleveland on wax recordings).

The highlight of the program occurs in the 5-6 AM hour when the compiler of the series "Rating the Presidents" (I forget the fellow's name) will appear on the show.  As a historian, John Rothman is one of those asked to rank the presidents, and he has voted George W. Bush as the worst president of all time.

You can listen to the broadcast at: http://www.kgoam810.com/
If you can't listen live, KGO now archives their broadcasts for a week:
http://www.kgoam810.com/...

Despite the attempts to 'demonize' him here and elsewhere, I mostly still like John McCain.  However, I also believe in due dilligence and a proper analysis of views, so I want to go over what he says.  I'd appreciate other people to throw in their analysis of his speech.

I normally don't care for diaries where the poster cuts into speeches and makes often snarky comments, so I hope to keep my comments as clinical as possible.  I'm not a political scientist but an economics student, so I my primary interest is economics, but don't think I'm a naif and I like to think I know pablum when I hear it.

I've previously posted the Illinois, Maryland, Ohio and Texas list of candidates.  The primaries have been held in Illinois and Maryland.  Ohio and Texas primaries are March 4, the same day as the presidential primaries.

Ohio is here: http://www.dailykos.com/...

Texas is here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...

BTW, in other Congressional candidate news CQpolitics reported New Hampshire Democratic Senate candidate Jay Buckey dropped his bid.  I'm surprised I haven't seen that mentioned here.