THEY have raised record-breaking sums of cash to help their candidates.
In Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard University professor and creator of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has raised record amounts of money.
Russia raised record revenue this year, helped by higher tax payments by commodity producers and other domestic industries.
"That's how political parties do business," said his lawyer, Mr. Chase, adding that as chairman, Mr. Greer raised record amounts for the party in 2008.
For one, they are supposed to stoke the perception that Mr. Bush, whose campaign has raised record sums, is the candidate of the well off.
That has been a challenge for venture capitalists, who have raised record amounts in recent years and need places to put that money to work.
House freshmen, some of whom raised record sums to get elected in November, are jumping into the fray early, hoping to scare off challengers.
As chairwoman of the chapter's annual Liver Life Walk the last two years, Ms. Shea raised record amounts of money: $110,000 in 2007, then $142,000 in 2008.
During his first Senate term, in the late 1980's, he raised record amounts for his Democratic colleagues as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The buyout firms raised record amounts of equity capital before the debt markets collapsed last summer, and many now find it difficult to put that money to work.
