Colorado (CO) candidate receipts, 2010 cycle

Colorado and the 2010 cycle as a two-column join

LobbyVault keeps a Colorado state page and a 2010 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $43,153,765.24 from 39 candidates where cycle equals 2010 and office state equals CO. Against the national cycle total of $1,854,998,616.07, that is 2.3%. Other office states in the same cycle hold $1.8 billion.

Do not treat 2.3% as Colorado's share of donor dollars from Colorado residents. Donor geography is not in these facts. Do not treat 39 as unique people who live in Colorado. The count is candidates with office state CO in cycle 2010. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count, a party split, or an office (Senate versus House) split for this pair.

The 2010 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $43,153,765.24 is the stored Colorado office-state total for that window. Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. Dollar figures are candidate receipt aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings. Independent expenditures are other files.

Colorado office-state receipts without a national mix-in

39 is a mid-size candidate file. 39 candidates produced $43,153,765.24. Mean about $1.11 million per candidate is $43,153,765.24 divided by 39. That ratio is not a typical campaign budget: a handful of statewide committees can dominate a mean while many House challengers file much smaller totals. No median is in the packet.

Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. Keep CO on the name. Other states have their own 2010 ties. $43,153,765.24 is not a Colorado state-office total under state law. Open the Colorado campaign-finance hub for the all-cycle state mix; open this page for Colorado in 2010 only.

2010 as a midterm FEC window

On the cycle side, 2190 U.S. candidates produced $1,854,998,616.07. Repeat filings and amended reports can still sit inside a candidate count of 2190 as stored. The packet does not say how many unique humans those records represent beyond the candidate count given. About $847,031 per U.S. candidate is a trivial division, not a finding about wealth. Midterm versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2010, not an explanation of Colorado's $43.2 million.

Independent expenditures never enter these candidate-receipt totals. Committee operating expenditures as a separate table never enter them. State-office filings never enter them. This is a candidate-receipt cycle×office-state aggregate from FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $43,153,765.24 is the stored Colorado office-state total for that window.

2.3% of 2010 U.S. candidate receipts

Compared with the rest of the 2010 cycle, Colorado is 2.3% of candidate receipts ($43,153,765.24 of $1,854,998,616.07). The rest is $1,811,844,850.83. 39 is the Colorado candidate count only. Quote dollars and candidates as different columns. Mixing them produces a fake density statistic this packet does not support.

Do not rank Colorado as a winner or loser in 2010. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys. Colorado campaign finance still mixes years.

What 39 Colorado candidates are not

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. 39 Colorado candidates sum to $43,153,765.24 in 2010. If a researcher needs donor-city cuts, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs committee names, those are not in this packet. Do not invent donor names.

Office state CO is a candidate field. Cycle 2010 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 39 candidates raised $43.2 million. Correlation is not causation. An office in Colorado does not locate the donors who funded the committee.

Using Colorado and 2010 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $43,153,765.24 from 39 candidates is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. Colorado × 2010 is a database join.

Researchers should keep CO as the stored office-state code and 2010 as the cycle tag. Colorado (CO) is the FEC office-state code. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico office states are not recoded into CO. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

How does Colorado in 2010 differ from the Colorado state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state CO. This tie keeps only 2010, where receipts are $43,153,765.24 from 39 candidates. If you need Colorado without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need Colorado in 2010 only, use this page.

How does this page differ from the 2010 election cycle hub?

The cycle hub mixes every office state. National receipts are $1,854,998,616.07 from 2190 candidates. This page keeps only Colorado, where receipts are $43,153,765.24 from 39 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell.

What does a mean of $1.11 million per Colorado candidate mean?

It is $43,153,765.24 divided by 39. It is not a median, not a typical House budget, and not a unique-person average. A few large statewide committees can pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median or an office-type split.

Is the 2010 Colorado total a closed final number?

The 2010 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $43,153,765.24 is the stored Colorado office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $43,153,765.24. If the live Colorado hub or the live 2010 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov.