The Top 10 Best-Funded House Challengers

[Brittain33]

I keep forgetting that the GOP actually lost TX-23 last year.

Interesting to see the GOP has two very well financed challengers in New York.  A big money challenge against Hall doesn't surprise me, but a well-financed challenge against Gillibrand does, to an extent.

Treadwell is extremely wealthy. I expect much of his fundraising was made from one checkbook, and may be a loan.

Is Snelly Gibbr actually still getting donations from people after her first term in Congress?

[Brittain33]

Why?  Gillibrand is obviously the weaker of the two and Treadwell has strong money connections.

Why do you consider Gillibrand the weaker one? Her district is marginally more Republican (they're both Republican leans) but by all accounts she's an extremely gifted politician, tireless with both constituent services and fundraising. I know this makes me sound like one of her staffers, but she has more money on hand than the entire NRCC and Stu Rothenberg called her "impossible not to like."

This is a district where local relationships and supporting the community counts for far more than ideology.  Hall's district, by comparison, has more affluent suburbanites who may be more loyal to the Republican party in a presidential year.

Canseco's biggest challenge will be getting past any potential Anglo opponents in the Republican primary.

[Brittain33]

Although I'm glad to see a well-funded serious challenge to John Hall (I hate the guy, for a number of reasons), he's still the odds-on favorite and I will be extremely surprised if he loses his seat.  Gillibrand is still in a lot more danger, even though she's not likely to go down, either.

Again, why do people think Hall is safer than Gillibrand?