With fewer than three months until the general election, campaigns are in full swing as candidates push their supporters to show up at the polls. There’s lots of buzz about what Congress will look like after November 4th, and who will be moving to Washington, but the list of those who won’t be heading back to Capitol Hill is already becoming quite lengthy.

The Center for Responsive Politics has compiled the 113th Congress Casualty List, which names every current member who, for whatever reason, will not be sworn in to the 114th Congress in January. Thirty-three of the politicians listed are retiring: 17 Republicans and 16 Democrats. Others have transitioned or will be transitioning to another role within the federal government, such as former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who became ambassador to China in March, and former Rep. Melvin Watt (D-N.C.), now Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Some have resigned, including Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.), whose reasons include frustration with the current gridlock, and Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.), who left office after being pressured to do so by Gov. Rick Scott of Florida in the wake of Radel’s conviction for cocaine possession.

Then there are the casualties of GOP primaries. Former Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Texas) both fell to challengers with Tea Party backing.

And finally, there are those members who are eager to move on to bigger and better things. Three representatives returned home to run for governor or lieutenant governor, including Rep. Allyson Schwartz, who lost the Democratic primary for governor of Pennsylvania in May. A total of 13 members of the House have made plays for the Senate, including Georgia Republican Reps. Jack Kingston, Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey, all of whom fell to the largely self-financed David Perdue in primaries. Rep. Steve Stockman challenged Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas Republican primary, to no avail.

There are now nine representatives still in the running to move their offices across Capitol Hill. One of those, Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii), is still awaiting the result of her too-close-to-call primary. That leaves eight House members who have just Election Day on Nov. 4 standing between them and the Senate floor: Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Rep. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

Well, Election Day plus $54 million and some change. So far $54,604,137 has been raised by these lawmakers’ opponents. Notable in that figure is the $13.6 million raised by Democratic Sen. Mark Udall’s campaign to defend his Colorado seat against Rep. Gardner, as well as Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) $13.5 million gathered to ward off Cassidy.

Some of these representatives have managed to out-raise their opponents, though. Moore Capito’s Democratic challenger, Natalie Tennant, has only raised $2.4 million to her campaign’s $5.5 million. Similarly, Braley has raised $7.1 million while his opponent, the gun-slinging Iowa state senator Joni Ernst, has raised $2.5 million.

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Which brings us to this week’s Politiquizz question:

Of the eight members of the House of Representatives already on the ballot for the U.S. Senate in November, which candidate has raised the most money?

The first person to submit the entire correct answer to [email protected] will win a free OpenSecrets.org bumper sticker. The answer can be found somewhere on our website.

In our last Politiquizz, we asked:

Of the top 20 individual contributors to JFCs, how many more did the Center for Responsive Politics categorize as “Solidly Democrat/Liberal” in 2012 than in this election cycle?

Congratulations to Gus from Helena, Montana, who was the first to submit the correct answer:

There were six more “Solidly Democrat/Liberal” contributors in the top 20 donors to joint fundraising committees in 2012 than in the current election cycle.



Note: The number of “Solidly Democrat/Liberal” top donors to JFCs in this cycle has increased since the last Politiquizz was published.



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