Scozzafava a distant third in fundraising

The Democrat in New York’s special election raised more than twice as much money as both the Republican and the Conservative Party nominees for the seat, as of last week.

Attorney Bill Owens’s (D) $491,000 raised in his pre-election filing far outpaced Republican state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava’s $234,000 and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s $205,000.

But Hoffman self-funded $102,000 and has also reportedly seen donations take off over the last week, with more than $200,000 raised online, and Owens’s numbers don’t include a fundraiser President Barack Obama appeared at for him last week in New York City.

That appears to leave Scozzafava a distant third in the money chase, and she has also dropped sharply in the polls, from being the early front-runner to running four points behind Owens in the latest Siena survey.

Owens also leads in cash on hand as of the Oct. 14 cutoff, with $128,000 in the bank, compared to $73,000 for Hoffman and just $41,000 for Scozzafava.