Massachusetts: Ma-3

While his Republican challenger, Jeff Beatty, went to three sign standouts Sunday, U.S. Sen. John Kerry was in Washington D.C. Sunday morning to appear on NBC's Meet the Press. According to his campaign, Kerry returned to Massachusetts immediately afterward and attended a get out the vote rally in Shrewsbury with Congressmen Richard Neal (D-Springfield) and Jim McGovern (D-Worcester). State Senate candidate Michael Moore, a Millbury Democrat who is running for state Sen. Edward Augustus' 2nd Worcester seat, was also at the event.

Congressman Jim McGovern is planning to attend several events for state Senate candidate Michael Moore in the run up to the election, his office said this week.

[img_assist|nid=21|title=Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Worcester)|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=180|height=144]Michael Mershon, a spokesman for McGovern, told PolitickerMA.com that since McGovern is unchallenged this year, he is devoting a lot of energy to other campaigns in his district and Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

In spite of giving large sums of money to other campaigns U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Worcester) reported $303,872.98 cash on hand for the second quarter, according to the Federal Election Commission.[img_assist|nid=21|title=Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Worcester)|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=180|height=144]

McGovern, who represents the Bay State's 3rd Congressional District, raked in $139,203.28 in total contributions for the quarter and has collected $863,391.82 in total contributions for this election cycle.