New fundraising numbers show both Allen and Collins raised about a million dollars in the third quarter. Collins, however has $3.34 million cash on hand, almost twice Allen's $1.67 million. Neither campaign has to rely solely on their own fundraising, with the DSCC backing Allen and NFIB and other groups running ads for Collins.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be campaigning with Allen later this week. I'm sure the Allen camp considers that a fitting partnership as they attempt to duplicate Whitehouse's success in knocking off a popular northeastern Republican.

The debate today was the most interesting of the exchanges I've seen so far. I'll have some more on that soon.