Massachusetts: Jeff Beatty

In the final month of his re-election campaign, U.S. Sen. John Kerry dished out $1.1 million including several substantial contributions to other Democrats across the country, according to his post general election filing with the Federal Election Commission.

The Boston Democrat, who raked in more than $8.3 million in contributions over the course of the cycle, finished the campaign with more than $4.2 million cash on hand.

Joe Manzoli, Republican U.S. Senate challenger Jeff Beatty's campaign manager this year, said over the weekend that he is considering running for chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party.

"I'm open to it," Manzoli told PolitickerMA.com. "I've received probably 15 emails from people asking me to run."

Manzoli said he has not decided whether he will run or not because he just returned from a two-week trip to Italy with his wife.

Buried in this Cape Cod Times political round-up on Monday is an interesting tidbit from U.S. Sen. John Kerry's recent race against Harwich Republican Jeff Beatty.

The Times reports that Kerry bet Congressman Bill Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat, that he would defeat Beatty by a larger margin than the 33.8 percent Delahunt beat Beatty by in 2006 for his congressional seat.

Republican U.S. Senate challenger Jeff Beatty said Tuesday that he has conceded the race to U.S. Sen. John Kerry and that he is proud of his campaign but disappointed he wasn't able to get his message to more voters.

"There are two sides of the coin," Beatty told PolitickerMA.com in a phone interview. "We're disappointed but we are very encouraged that the people that we met liked our message."

"We just didn't get our message out in front of enough people," the Harwich Republican added.