Candidate receipts for Florida in 2010

The relationship: cycle 2010 and office state FL

Headline number: $144,661,685.81. Candidate count: 152. National cycle dollars: $1,854,998,616.07. National cycle candidates: 2190. Remainder outside Florida: $1,710,336,930.26. Dollar share: 7.8%. Candidate share: 6.9%. Those quantities are the join.

Florida in 2010 is not Florida in every year and is not 2010 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. Correlation is not causation. An FL office-state code does not mean every dollar was donated from Florida.

Use cycle 2010 and state FL together when quoting $144,661,685.81. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not independent expenditures.

Reading $144,661,685.81 as an office-state book

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle hub. How much did candidates for Florida offices raise in 2010? $144,661,685.81 from 152 records. How much did all office states raise in 2010? $1,854,998,616.07 from 2190 records. The difference is $1,710,336,930.26 and 2038 candidates.

Those are stack identities, not rankings. Do not rank Florida against unnamed other states beyond the shares already stated. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys.

National 2010 dollars beside Florida

Cycle 2010 tagged $1,854,998,616.07 nationally and $144,661,685.81 to office state FL. That is the cycle slice for Florida. It is a midterm window. It is not a ranking of Florida among all states beyond the shares already stated (7.8% of dollars, 6.9% of candidate records).

Mean about $951,721.62 should be quoted with the inputs: $144,661,685.81 and 152 records. Dropping either input turns the mean into an unsourced claim. This cycle-state page does not break $144,661,685.81 out by office (Senate vs House vs President) because that split is not in the packet.

Packet slug 2010-florida-candidate-receipts is the LobbyVault filename for this 2010 × Florida join. Canonical path is /ties/2010-florida-candidate-receipts/. Overlay the cycle hub and the state hub; do not treat either hub as $144,661,685.81.

Cycle 2010 (midterm) plus office state FL is the two-part key behind $144,661,685.81. Drop the cycle and the page becomes a multi-year state hub. Drop the state and the page becomes the national cycle hub of $1,854,998,616.07. Keep both.

The complement: $1,710,336,930.26 outside Florida

The complement of the join inside the cycle book is $1,710,336,930.26 (92.2%) and 2038 candidate records (93.1%). That money is still cycle 2010; it is just not tagged office state FL. The join itself remains $144,661,685.81 / 152 records / Florida / 2010.

7.8% is not a turnout rate and not a share of federal spending. Those denominators are absent. Use only $1,854,998,616.07 when stating the cycle dollar share.

Recompute the dollar share from the raw figures: 144,661,685.81 divided by 1,854,998,616.07 is 7.8%. The complement 1,710,336,930.26 is $1,710,336,930.26, which is 92.2% of the national 2010 book. Candidate share uses 152 / 2190.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending obligations. $144,661,685.81 has no award count beside it in this packet. Do not fold $144,661,685.81 into federal spending in Florida. Different statutes, different forms, different tables.

Itemized candidate receipts, not a census

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. $144,661,685.81 is the operational definition for Florida in 2010. If a researcher needs city cuts of donors, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs names, those are not in this packet.

Cycle 2010 is an FEC tag. Office state FL is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 152 campaigns raised $144,661,685.81.

Florida campaign-finance coverage still includes every other cycle. This tie does not. Researchers who need a multi-year mix should leave this URL and open the Florida hub. Researchers who need Florida in 2010 should stay here.

Do not invent candidate names. 152 is a record count. Mean about $951,721.62 is arithmetic. The packet published cycle, state, $144,661,685.81, 152, $1,854,998,616.07, and 2190.

FEC candidate receipts are not USAspending awards

A candidate receipt is not an assistance award and not a contract action. $144,661,685.81 does not become Florida spending because both datasets can mention Florida. Keep FEC and USAspending separate. This packet has only FEC candidate receipt aggregates.

Open the 2010 election cycle for the national book, Florida campaign finance for the state mix across years, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for sibling joins. Each door answers a different question.

Candidate receipts are the only money in $144,661,685.81 and $1,854,998,616.07. Independent expenditures and USAspending awards are other files. Mixing those files with this join would invent a total the packet does not contain.

Questions

How much money is tied to Florida in the 2010 cycle?

Candidate receipts storing office state FL and cycle 2010 total $144,661,685.81 across 152 candidate records in this extract. The unfiltered 2010 national book is $1,854,998,616.07 from 2190 candidates. $144,661,685.81 is already inside $1,854,998,616.07; adding the two double-counts. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipt aggregates.

Does $144,661,685.81 include independent expenditures in Florida?

No. The source note limits the series to candidate receipts. Independent expenditures, electioneering communications, and committee operating expenditures are other FEC tables and are omitted from $144,661,685.81 and from $1,854,998,616.07. Cite the live 2010 file on FEC.gov for those other schedules.

Can I treat 152 as unique Florida candidates?

Treat it as a candidate-record count in this extract, not a named census. Multiple committees and special elections can add records. The packet publishes 152 for Florida in 2010 and 2190 nationally. Names are unpublished and are not invented here. Mean about $951,721.62 uses $144,661,685.81 divided by 152.

Are 2010 Florida receipts the same as Florida federal spending?

No. FEC candidate receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. $144,661,685.81 is not an award amount. Office state on a candidate filing does not convert receipts into federal spending. This packet publishes no obligation dollars and no award counts. Source: FEC.gov.