Anchorage, AK political money — 2010 cycle

Anchorage, AK × 2010 isolates the midterm tag

$174,118 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ANCHORAGE with state AK, and election cycle 2010. The match is $174,118 across 219 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $68,822,517. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.25% of Anchorage, AK itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $68,648,399 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Anchorage, AK. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under ANCHORAGE. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Anchorage, AK with every other donor city in the United States. The 219 rows and $174,118 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not an Alaska APOC state-campaign total, a borough ranking, or a resource-extraction census. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

ANCHORAGE as Alaska’s municipal city key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city ANCHORAGE in Alaska totals $68.8 million ($68,822,517). $174,118 is 0.25% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Anchorage; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $174,118 to $68,822,517; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $68,822,517 − $174,118 = $68,648,399 in other cycles.

The stored city is the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska. Juneau, Fairbanks, and Wasilla are not rolled into ANCHORAGE. State AK stays on the citation so Anchorage is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $68.8 million is the AK key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 two-year window on Anchorage receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2010 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Anchorage, AK filers itemized $174,118 on 219 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $795 per itemized gift ($174,118 ÷ 219). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 219-row extract — a thicker file for this city string, still Schedule A lines rather than unique residents. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Alaska still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Anchorage × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Alaska campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $174,118 into the state hub a second time.

2010 versus other cycles in the Anchorage book

0.25% of $68,822,517 is the 2010 slice. Put another way, about 0.25% of Anchorage, AK’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $174,118 divided by $68,822,517 and $68,648,399 divided by $68,822,517. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.25%) and row volume (219 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This 2010 page is not the 2008 Anchorage join. Each even-year tag is a separate city-cycle URL on the same ANCHORAGE string. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.25% as Anchorage’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

219 contribution records are not unique donors

219 itemized contributions totaling $174,118 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of ANCHORAGE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Anchorage versus other Alaska cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $795 uses only the two numbers in the join: $174,118 and 219 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $174,118 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed ANCHORAGE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Anchorage.

What Anchorage–2010 cannot answer

This page does not rank Anchorage against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Alaska. Two columns matched. A AK address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Alaska candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Anchorage, AK hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm label does not assign Anchorage receipts to a House race. Committee and office are unpublished here.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Anchorage, AK, the 2010 election cycle, Alaska campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Kenai and Palmer are other Alaska city keys. They are not absorbed into ANCHORAGE. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Anchorage, AK donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Anchorage, AK total $174,118 in the 2010 cycle, across 219 contribution records. The same city label totals $68,822,517 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.25% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Anchorage’s citywide total the same as the 2010 slice?

No. The city aggregate of $68,822,517 covers every cycle in the table for ANCHORAGE. The 2010 filter is $174,118 from 219 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $68,648,399. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did 2010 Anchorage donations stay with Alaska candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Anchorage, AK; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $174,118 by office, state of the committee, or party. A AK city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Alaska races.

How many Anchorage, AK contributions were itemized in 2010?

219 itemized contribution records sum to $174,118. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $795 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.