Money isn’t everything, but Rob Portman has to like how the Ohio Senate race is shaping up:

Rob Portman announced today that his U.S. Senate campaign has $6 million in the bank and raised $1.4 million in the final quarter of 2009, bringing Portman’s total receipts for 2009 to $7.64 million. Portman for Senate added more than 3,000 new contributors in the 4th quarter, bringing its total number of 2009 donors to more than 9,100.

By contrast, on the Democratic side, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher announced last week that he raised $780,000 in the fourth quarter; his campaign has declined to release their cash on hand. At the end of the third quarter, Fisher reported $1.3 million on hand. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has not yet released her numbers.