April 16, 2010 10:36 PM UTC

Sarah Palin Had Better Hurry

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• by: Colorado Pols

Having placed Rep. John Salazar in her famous “crosshairs,” there had better be some hard numbers to back up former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s bluster this coming quarter–as the Durango Herald reports, it’ll be coming not a moment to soon:

U.S. Rep. John Salazar raised $305,000 during the first quarter of 2010, giving him a war chest of $1.1 million for his re-election campaign…

Republican opponent Robert “Bob” McConnell reported Wednesday afternoon that his campaign has raised $44,127, with $27,655 of that raised in the first quarter of this year.

“I’m not going to win this election with money,” McConnell said…

Did Palin tell him that? Meanwhile, the real interest is shaping up around strong(er) GOP primary candidate Scott Tipton, who is apparently late releasing his Q1 numbers: you recall Tipton raised just over $100,000 last quarter, not horrible but hardly what you’d call stationkeeping with Salazar’s strong numbers–he’s got to show contender-level performance, certainly no later than the quarter ending in June, to prove he is in the race for more than second-place tourism.

UPDATE: Tipton raises $140,000 in Q1, and awaits that Palin magic.