Out-of-state donations fuel McCaskill bid
"As a Democrat in a right-leaning state who has already been hit with a barrage of negative ads, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., faces a tough battle in her campaign for re-election. That's no secret.
But as she gears up to defend what many people view as one of the country's most vulnerable Senate seats, out-of-state donors are giving her campaign a boost.
Of the more than $3.7 million McCaskill has raised from individual donations of $200 or more since 2007, 60 percent came from donors outside of Missouri.
McCaskill is raising a bigger percentage of her money from out-of-state individual contributions than most of the other 22 senators running for re-election this year, according to a Post-Dispatch analysis of campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. Together, 48 percent of the money they raised from donations of $200 or more came from outside of their home states.
The analysis used donations as of Dec. 31, and excluded donations of less than $200, which are not included in the FEC's database."
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