Alex Sink with Bill McCollum at the opening of the 2010 legislative session. Credit: Colin Hackley

UPDATED: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is running under the radar while Republican rivals Bill McCollum and Rick Scott bloody each other for the right to face her Nov. 2.

Is the lady in waiting in danger of waiting too long to rev up her campaign machine and get her name out there?

Sink, the state's chief financial officer, appears comfortable with her fund-raising at least. Setting a goal of collecting at least $1 million each quarter, Sink's staff said she met and surpassed that objective in the latest reporting period.

"She raised $6 million by end of first quarter and had $5 million in the bank -- the most of any Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Florida history," Sink spokeswoman Kyra Jennings said Monday.

Jennings said the campaign would release its second-quarter figures by "the middle of the week."

While McCollum and Scott spend multimillions, Sink has the Democratic field pretty much to herself. Her lone primary opponent is Brian P. Moore, a Spring Hill resident who was the Socialist Party's candidate for president in 2008.

As of March 31, Sink reporting having $1.2 million more in the bank than McCollum. That gap has since widened, with McCollum's reserves reportedly shrinking to $800,000 in recent weeks as the attorney general tries to fend off Scott.

Scott, spending some $20 million of his own money, did not enter the race until the second quarter.