Connecticut (CT) candidate receipts in 2010

Connecticut receipts in 2010 are a two-key overlap

LobbyVault keeps a Connecticut state page and a 2010 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $88,480,213.33 from 42 candidates where cycle equals 2010 and office state equals CT. Against the national cycle total of $1,854,998,616.07, that is 4.8%. Other office states in the same cycle hold $1.8 billion.

Do not treat 4.8% as Connecticut's share of donor dollars from Connecticut residents. Donor geography is not in these facts. Do not treat 42 as unique people who live in Connecticut. The count is candidates with office state CT 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; $88,480,213.33 is the stored Connecticut office-state total for that window. Connecticut (CT) is the FEC office-state code. New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island office states are other keys. Dollar figures are candidate receipt aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings. Independent expenditures are other files.

Connecticut office-state receipts without a national mix-in

42 is a mid-size candidate file. 42 candidates produced $88,480,213.33. Mean about $2.11 million per candidate is $88,480,213.33 divided by 42. 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.

Connecticut (CT) is the FEC office-state code. New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island office states are other keys. Keep CT on the name. Other states have their own 2010 ties. $88,480,213.33 is not a Connecticut state-office total under state law. Open the Connecticut campaign-finance hub for the all-cycle state mix; open this page for Connecticut 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 Connecticut's $88.5 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; $88,480,213.33 is the stored Connecticut office-state total for that window.

4.8% of 2010 U.S. candidate receipts

Compared with the rest of the 2010 cycle, Connecticut is 4.8% of candidate receipts ($88,480,213.33 of $1,854,998,616.07). The rest is $1,766,518,402.74. 42 is the Connecticut 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 Connecticut as a winner or loser in 2010. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys. Connecticut campaign finance still mixes years.

What 42 Connecticut candidates are not

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. 42 Connecticut candidates sum to $88,480,213.33 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 CT is a candidate field. Cycle 2010 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 42 candidates raised $88.5 million. Correlation is not causation. An office in Connecticut does not locate the donors who funded the committee.

Using Connecticut and 2010 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $88,480,213.33 from 42 candidates is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. Connecticut × 2010 is a database join.

Researchers should keep CT as the stored office-state code and 2010 as the cycle tag. Connecticut (CT) is the FEC office-state code. New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island office states are other keys. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

Who raised $88.5 million in Connecticut in 2010?

42 federal candidates with office state CT in cycle 2010, in aggregate. This packet does not list their names, parties, or offices. Inventing a candidate or donor name would exceed the facts. Use live candidate pages for names. This tie stays aggregated to office state and cycle.

Why is $1,854,998,616.07 on the Connecticut page?

Because this is a join. $1,854,998,616.07 is the national 2010 denominator that makes 4.8% computable. It is not additional Connecticut money. Connecticut money in 2010 remains $88,480,213.33. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total, never as the Connecticut office-state cell.

Does 42 include state-legislature candidates in Connecticut?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state CT. Connecticut state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 42 is the federal candidate count in the packet, not a legislature roster.

Where should I go next from this Connecticut 2010 tie?

Open the 2010 election cycle for the national year, Connecticut campaign finance for the all-cycle state mix, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the only internal links this packet authorizes. Sibling cycle-state slugs are other keys.