Tuesday Rundown

Thanks to your generosity on the Expand the Map! ActBlue page, Tom Allen has crossed the $500 target and Andrew Rice has crossed the $3,000 target! Meanwhile, Larry LaRocco is only $73 away and Rick Noriega is only $88 away from the $1,000 target. Can we get Larry and Rick over the $1,000 hump? Again, thank you so much!

Minnesota: For the third fundraising quarter in a row, Al Franken outraised Norm Coleman, as Franken's $1.9 million Q4 take topped Coleman's $1.7 million. Nevertheless, Coleman still enjoys a cash-on-hand advantage of $6 million compared to Franken's $3.1 million. But if Franken keeps outraising Coleman, that cash-on-hand gap should narrow, just as the gap in the polls have.

Nebraska: I dare you to watch Mike Johanns introductory video without falling asleep. I dare you. In fact, I dare Mike Johanns to watch it without falling asleep.

Maine: The Kennebec Journal's retired editor is awfully mad about millions of dollars of waste and mismanagement in Iraq, but he doesn't blame Susan Collins. Maybe he should.

Mississippi: Cotton Mouth offers a thorough round-up of press from Ronnie Musgrove 2008 Senate campaign kick-off tour.

Kentucky: Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Horne is hustling around Kentucky campaigning for Senate. Kentucky's filing deadline is three weeks from today. Will Charlie Owen or Greg Fischer join Lt. Col. Horne? Given how promising Horne's candidacy is, it'd suit me just fine if they got behind him.

Virginia: The latest Rasmussen Reports poll on the 2008 Senate race sees popular former Governor Mark Warner beating Republican Jim Gilmore by 15 points, with roughly identical numbers to Rasmussen's findings from October.

Texas: Burnt Orange Report wonders when John Cornyn will debate his 2008 Republican Senate primary opponent, Larry Kilgore (who did score over 7% of the vote in the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary). Also, according to their website, the Constitution Party Texas will field a 2008 Senate candidate, Alfred Adask. (Texas' filing deadline was January 2.)