The Anchorage Daily News reports that Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, a Democrat, “hauled in more than a million dollars in just the past three months” in his bid to oust Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, this fall. But “Stevens has around double the cash on hand that Begich reported after campaign expenses.” Stevens, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, drew contributions from “Citigroup, the American Cable Association, the United States Telecom Association, Southwest Air, Clear Channel Communications and lobbying firms.” Begich collected funds “from several unions, the abortion-rights group NARAL, the American Association for Justice lawyers group and political action committees of Senate Democrats. Begich also picked up a lot of small donations via the Internet through the ActBlue Democratic political action committee.”

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., posted disappointing fundraising over the past few months, taking in less campaign cash in the second quarter of 2008 than during the comparable period in the last two election cycles. Porter’s $418,000 collected was also substantially less than the $575,000 raised by his challenger,” Democratic state Sen. Dina Titus, in the same period. But Porter still had $1.3 million cash on hand to $553,000 for Titus, the paper noted. “The race for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes mostly suburban areas of Clark County, is expected to be one of the most competitive in the country this election season.”