October fundraising report

       October    Year-to-date  Cash on Hand  Debts

DSCC      3.1         45.1         23.4        2.5
NRSC      2.9         26.3          9.5         0

DCCC      4.1         56.6         29.2        2.1
NRCC      3.6         40.7          2.6        3.6

DNC       5.6         46.1          3.3        1.7
RNC       8.5         75.1         17.6          0

Total D  12.7        147.9         55.9        6.3
Total R  14.9        138.6         29.7        3.6

The House Republican committee remains essentially broke, still a shade over $1 million in debt less than a year out from the election. Their precarious money position ensures that they'll have little money to play on offense, and won't even have much for defense. Their fundraising should get worse as more Republicans resign and those remaining face tougher challenges, further eroding one of the committee's chief sources of funds -- transfers from members themselves.

The RNC remains the GOP's sole bright spot, but their advantage over the DNC is dwarfed by the massive fundraising advantages our Democratic candidates themselves are enjoying over their Republican counterparts. And given those disparities, the RNC will be forced to focus exclusively on the presidential, preventing it from bailing out the GOP's laggard House and Senate committees like they did in 2006.