If you had the chance to watch President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, you know how much emphasis he put on boosting the middle class and making sure the wealthy are paying their fair share. Senate Democrats are standing with him. Three more of our candidates have posted strong fundraising numbers; I’ll give you the details below. Tommy Thompson is waffling in Wisconsin, and you won’t BELIEVE the guy New York Republicans want to run for Senate. In Ohio,  Josh Mandel is ignoring his job as Treasurer in order to raise money in Washington D.C. Meanwhile, John Boehner of all people makes the case for why we need to keep the Senate blue.

I have more fundraising results to share, and our candidates are posting strong numbers. Meanwhile, a new poll shows that Sen. Sherrod Brown is holding his lead over Republican Josh Mandel. Also, Republicans were already struggling with a number of crowded, nasty Senate primaries – and now you can add Virginia and Connecticut to that list.

Quarterly fundraising numbers are trickling in, and Elizabeth Warren put up a MASSIVE number, thanks in large part to the small donors who are making a big difference in our fight to keep the Senate blue. We expect more good numbers in the coming days from our other candidates. And just in time, as Tea Party forces unenthused by Mitt Romney turn their energy toward taking the Senate. Meanwhile, Heidi Heitkamp is giving North Dakota Republicans heartburn – for good reason.

This morning, Rep. Tammy Baldwin received an important endorsement – from the man whom she hopes to replace as the voice for Wisconsin families in the United States Senate.

Believe it or not, it’s now 2012 – election year. We got good news from Michigan this week: A new poll shows Sen. Debbie Stabenow leading by 10 points, 52-42. Meanwhile, Republican infighting just might help Democrats in Wisconsin and Virginia. In Missouri, businessman John Brunner says he had nothing to do with the job layoffs at his own company, and it’s Chamber of Commerce vs. Chamber of Commerce over attack ads in Montana. And in Massachusetts, Sen. Scott Brown is on the run from Elizabeth Warren.  After weeks of polling showing Warren taking the lead over Brown, he reversed course to save his re-election and came out in favor of President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – after issuing a press release announcing he was opposed to it!  While Brown is busy pandering and flip-flopping, Warren is busy fighting for the middle class.