Top Senate fund-raisers bring in millions

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several Senate candidates have reached or are approaching the $10 million mark in fund raising as the Democratic and Republican parties wage a coast-to-coast battle to win a majority of seats in the fall election.

The money leaders include Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, who raised more than $25 million through June, compared with $451,000 for his Republican challenger, Howard Mills.

Illinois Democrat Barack Obama, the Democratic National Convention's keynote speaker who could become the nation's fifth black senator, raised more than $10 million in his bid for an open Senate seat, according to early campaign reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.

Obama doesn't even have a Republican opponent. Rival Jack Ryan abandoned the race after revelations about sex clubs, and former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka rejected Republican entreaties to enter the contest less than four months before the November 2 election.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/16/senate.fundraising.ap/index.html

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