McHenry County Blog's Cal Skinner has gone through the latest FEC filings, and makes some interesting observations HERE.  The skinny is ...

• Third quarter finance reports from Illinois Republicans show 14th CD competitors Joe Walsh raised $30,000 less than Randy Hultgren in the last three months, but that Walsh reported nearly $200,000 more on hand at the period''s close.
• 16th CD's intra-party congressional competitiors Don Manzullo raised $316k to Adam Kinzinger's $202k in the last quarter, but Kinzinger's got almost $80k more on hand than Manzullo.
• Tim Johnson's at $379k, Bobby Schilling's at $450k, Judy Biggert's at $886k and Robert Dole has $994k on hand. 
• The Illinois Republicans with over $1 M on hand are John Shimkus ($1.3M), Peter Roskam ($1.7M) and Aaron Schock ($1.9M).