All four focus groups contributed to all themes, but for four out of 21 categories there were contributions from only two or three focus groups.
In exchange, donors to those groups contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Mr. Carey's financially pressed campaign.
Private foundations, businesses and groups contributed, and Hygienic Art raised about $275,000, including $100,000 in tax credits from the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.
More than 30 groups contributed to the year long effort, including the Council on the Environment of New York City and the United States Forest Service.
Many companies and groups contributed to the government-endorsed Internet-based tools for exchanging health data among institutions.
Protestant suspicion of the Catholic Church may have been a driving force behind the political and legal efforts to deny state aid to parochial schools, but other religious groups contributed to the brief reign of strict separationism.
Especially committed to Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender rights, his work with many LGBT groups contributed to the greater freedom and respect LGBT people enjoy today despite the homophobia that still works to impede that progress.
Oil and gas companies and their trade groups contributed a total of $14 million in 1999 and 2000, with more than $10 million going to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan election research group.
As Congressional Quarterly reported last week, industry groups contributed almost $1.8 million in the first six months of 2009 alone to the 18 House members of both parties supervising health care reform, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer among them.
But Ms. McKinney, who has been vocal in support of Arab causes, drew much of her campaign financing from pro-Arab groups, while Jewish groups contributed to Ms. Majette's campaign.
"They will say, 'How do we find that middle ground?' " Just as environmental groups contributed lavishly to Democrats, the oil, gas and coal industries directed record-breaking sums to Republicans in the last election.
