30 000 people with thirty thousand different stories, the vast majority raising huge sums for charities close to their hearts.
Roughly $7.5bn£5.7bnbn) will be spent on this election, the vast majority raised from the corporatised donor class.
After her death, the sale of her "vast" collection raised a huge amount of money for Wizo, the international Jewish women's organisation.
Driving the burst of activity is deep concern among Democrats at the vast fund-raising gulf between Democratic and Republican outside groups and Mr. Romney's apparent ease in matching Mr. Obama's own campaign fund-raising, leaving the Democrats severely outgunned.
Mr. Reynolds chose a critical moment to tap a vast fund-raising network he has put together since arriving in Congress a little more than four years ago: President Bush's re-election campaign is scrambling to amass the largest treasury in history, a goal that has, in turn, set off an intense fund-raising competition among the president's most-loyal supporters.
The use of "self-made" to describe Jenner's vast wealth raised a lot of eyebrows.
So, even if Citizens United could be overturned, the current system of "independent" groups spending vast sums raised from individual contributions would not change substantially.
The state legislature in its vast wisdom raised salaries, a cache of hidden money (dating back, I'm told, to the early '90s) was discovered at the state parks department, deceptive PR and soft reporting created the false impression that the high-speed rail program would be paid for out of the state's general fund.
I am the one who lingers inside the neon studios of the Fox News Channel and discusses politics; I know of Rove only from the monitors there, which report that he raises vast sums from billionaires for his Super PAC.
While a hike in the GST has the potential to raise vast sums of money, it is patently regressive.
