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John Lewis is behind Ryan Zinke in the polls, and behind both Zinke and Nancy Keenan, the Democratic candidate in 2000, in raising money. Lewis does have more money in the bank than Zinke ($622k to $97k), who spent every dollar to win the primary, but that advantage won’t last long. Zinke’s an accomplished fundraiser.
Both, but Lewis especially, are raising less money than Nancy Keenan and Dennis Rehberg did in 2000. In the graph below, the totals for Lewis and Zinke are through the second quarter of 2014. The totals for Keenan and Rehberg are for their full campaigns.
In addition to raising more money, Lewis needs to make himself a lot more visible and audible; sun bright and fortissimo. And pronto — because there’s not much time left. Early and absentee balloting begins just ten weeks from now, on 6 October.
