david coke get together with other very wealthy people around palm springs. they try to hold the seminars in as much secrecy as possible. this was outside the coke's desert summit in 2011, and that was an off year for politics. but that year people did find out in advance where they were going to and when they were going to be there, and there was sort of a welcome party in reverse for the cokes and thash rich allies that year. that was 2011 when the cokes and their friends were presumably planning their strategy for the next election cycle. the next election cycle, of course, was 2012. a few weeks ago the "washington post" tallied up all the money the cokes and their network raised for the 2012 election cycle. and by the post's accounting, it looks like something on the order of about $400 million just for the 2012 election torn down into a warrant of -- most with