Democratic Party, Helped by Wall Street, Outraising Republicans

Democratic Party committees entered April with $22 million more to help their congressional candidates than Republicans, a reversal of four years ago.

The Democratic National Committee and the party’s Senate and House fundraising arms had $58 million to spend as of March 31, compared with $36 million for the corresponding Republican groups. In March 2006, before the last midterm election, the Republicans had $84 million in the bank and the Democrats had $65 million.