CME

CME as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — CME and 2010 — sum to $648,386. 542 itemized contributions and 163 unique donors produced it. The total is not a corporate treasury gift and is not the company’s PAC. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the CME hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. CME is a three-letter employer/industry string as stored. The FEC does not expand it to CME Group or to a membership roll of traders. 163 donors and 542 lines in 2010 matched that employer text. CME GROUP, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, CHICAGO MERC, and other exchange spellings sit in other keys. This page is the stored string CME.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open CME 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the CME 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $648,386, 542 contributions, 163 donors, and 6.1% of $10,607,839.

6.1% of the CME roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,607,839. The 2010 slice of $648,386 is about 6.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.9% ($9,959,453). Treating 2010 as the CME FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $10,607,839 as the denominator for the 6.1% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $10,607,839.

A 6.1% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same CME hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open CME to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

Questions

How much did CME-listed donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $648,386 in itemized individual contributions for the CME grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 542 contributions and 163 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,607,839 all-cycle figure.

What share of CME FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,607,839. The 2010 cell of $648,386 is about 6.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.9% ($9,959,453) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the CME hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $648,386 the CME PAC total for 2010?

No. $648,386 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to CME in the 2010 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 542 contributions came from 163 donors.

Where is the overlay for the CME 2010 join?

Open CME 2010 for the cycle overlay, CME for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.