Hilleary and Bryant Camps Reporting Roughly Equal for Q1

According to http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=24940 both the Bryant and Hilleary campaigns brought in about $400,000 in Q1, 2005. No word yet on the Corker campaign but they had better bring in at least $400,000 to have any credibility with those of us currently watching the fight. It's one thing to have all the Haslams in the state (including those in diapers) max out to you and another to have real people ante up.

I haven't heard it mentioned yet, but when you look at the time invested in raising money this quarter, Van accomplished in a couple of weeks what took Ed three months to do. Next quarter reports should be telling. I'm predicting Ed will feel some serious pressure not to be a spoiler here. The grapevine has been saying his campaign is running scared and there is ample evidence to that effect, but it will take a massive fundraising effort from Team Van to get Ed out of the race in my opinion.