Stacks of campaign newspapers have routinely been stolen.
And lobbyists hoping to curry favor have the greatest incentive to do the work of dunning clients, colleagues, family and friends for stacks of campaign donations.
Mr. Hsu came into the picture with the advent of bundlers, wealthy and well-connected surrogates who can collect stacks of campaign checks from friends, family members and associates.
The candidate, mingling with a supportive crowd of about 60 people at the Masonic Lodge here on Sunday night, was so happy that she handed over her entire stack of campaign fliers to Mr. Bentz's wife, Billie Jo.
At her second stop, outside the Grand Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, she passed out a stack of bilingual campaign literature.
"When Gen. Wesley Clark called, I was on deadline and I needed to get some pages out," Ms. Hunter said in an interview in her office, which was filled with stacks of position papers and campaign literature.
Save for a few photographs on the walls, and boxes of campaign leaflets stacked on the floor, there would be no way to tell that this impressive Midtown office serves as more than the headquarters of one of New York's premier political consulting firms.
In the eighties and nineties, under Mickey Drexler's leadership, the company's store design was simplified to white walls, polished wood floors, and stacks of clothes, while ad campaigns like 1988's "Individuals of Style" and 1993's "Who Wore Khakis" invented a history of everyday fashion.
The office is now full of stacks of boxes, containing everything from campaign T-shirts and hats to Yellow Tail Cabernet Merlot to office files.
But that's how sure of itself -- or rather, how sure of those Stacks Of Cash -- the Romney campaign is right now.
Led by Lauren Shannon, 36, the director of a restaurant and catering company called Fujimama's in the trendy Harajuku shopping district, the Dean contingent went to Sunday's caucus with the most passionate organization and the largest stack of posters and campaign material.
