Who says Chris Dodd can’t win reelection? He’s just running in the wrong state.

First quarter fund raising reports are out, and so far this year the embattled Connecticut Senator has raised over $1 million for his 2010 campaign. Of that, just over $4,000 came from Connecticut residents — all five of them.

Dodd may want to move to Massachusetts where he’s raised $90,000 so far. He’s pretty popular in Texas too, raising $81,000 down there. Or do some kind of a weird Maryland/New York combo-meal thing as residents have combined in those two states to give him more than $100,000.

Obama

Despite having a 33 percent approval rating and being the poster child for the AIG executive bonus fiasco, he’s got one big supporter with some clout.

President Obama isn’t backing away from Dodd. Yesterday, the president sang his praises from Air Force One.

“I can’t say it any clearer: I will be helping Chris Dodd because he deserves the help,” Obama told the Boston Globe.

“Chris is going through a rough patch,” he said. “He just has an extraordinary record of accomplishment, and I think the people in Connecticut will come to recognize that. . . . He always has his constituencies at heart, and he’s somebody I’m going to be relying on and working very closely with to shepherd through the types of regulatory reforms we need.”

Even less

The Boston Herald wonders if there are politicians who have even less hometown support than Dodd.

Yes, they announce. Patrick Kennedy wins that honor.

“Since last January he has collected no donations from the state of Rhode Island. Maybe that’s why the recent Brown University poll has Patrick down to a 38% favorable rating,” writes Boston Herald blogger Holly Robichaud.

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