What is the Mobile and 2010 join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of contributor city MOBILE with state AL and election cycle 2010: $157,936 on 81 itemized receipts. The Mobile, AL hub still mixes other cycles ($33,896,317 citywide). The 2010 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.

Does $157,936 include unitemized Mobile gifts?

No. $157,936 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city MOBILE in cycle 2010. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $33,896,317 is also an itemized aggregate.

Is $1,950 a typical Mobile donor in 2010?

No. $1,950 is $157,936 divided by 81 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Mobile, AL.

Where should I read Mobile without a 2010 filter?

Open the Mobile, AL city hub for the $33,896,317 all-cycle book. Open the 2010 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open Alabama campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.

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Mobile, AL political money — 2010 cycle

81 itemized FEC receipts listing contributor city MOBILE in AL sum to $157,936 in the 2010 midterm election cycle. That receipt file is the city-cycle join on LobbyVault, not the Mobile, AL all-cycle book of $33,896,317 and not a national 2010 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed by donor city and election cycle.

Key figures

FEC.gov records $157,936 from contributor city MOBILE in cycle 2010 (81 receipts).
Other cycles under the same Mobile, AL label hold $33,738,381 of the $33,896,317 city book.
2010 is a midterm election cycle; that calendar fact does not explain $157,936.
81 is a row count, not a headcount of Mobile residents.
FEC itemized receipts are not USAspending awards.

$157,936 is a join, not a restatement of Mobile

LobbyVault stores $157,936 so a reader can open the Mobile, AL city hub and the 2010 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles ($33,896,317). The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Mobile, AL in 2010.

81 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,950 ($157,936 ÷ 81). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join.

2010 is a midterm election cycle. Cite the two packet dollars — $157,936 for the 2010 slice and $33,896,317 for the Mobile, AL book — and stop before assigning motive. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Reading the Mobile, AL city book

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city MOBILE in Alabama totals $33,896,317. $157,936 is 0.47% of that city book — a thin slice of the citywide book. A thin or small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Mobile; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Mobile, AL table is the place to compare other years.

Mobile sits in Mobile County, Alabama, on the Gulf. Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile, other-state namesakes, are not this Alabama key. State AL stays on the citation so Mobile is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $33,896,317 is the AL key only. Remainder outside 2010 is $33,738,381.

What the 2010 cycle tag actually is

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 81 Mobile, AL lines in that window produced $157,936. National 2010 activity — every city — lives on the 2010 election cycle hub, not here.

Alabama campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Mobile. Do not add $157,936 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle joins.

What $157,936 does not measure

$157,936 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city MOBILE. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Alabama file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Mobile can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered.

A donor who typed MOBILE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Mobile. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place. Treat 81 as lines that stored this string in 2010. FEC receipts are not USAspending awards.

Using Mobile and 2010 without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $157,936 beside $33,896,317 does not mean 2010 caused the city book or that Mobile drove the 2010 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. Internal links go to Mobile, AL, the 2010 election cycle, Alabama campaign finance, and All FEC ties. If a live hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

81 is a receipt count for Mobile, AL in 2010, a modest itemized file. A household that gave on two dates is two lines. An office or joint-fundraising address stored as MOBILE sits in the same city field as a residential street. LobbyVault does not convert that field into a Census residency test. Unique-person counts are not in the facts and are not estimated from 81. Mean size of about $1,950 is $157,936 divided by 81, an arithmetic ratio, not a median donor.

Questions

What is the Mobile and 2010 join on LobbyVault?: It is the overlap of contributor city MOBILE with state AL and election cycle 2010: $157,936 on 81 itemized receipts. The Mobile, AL hub still mixes other cycles ($33,896,317 citywide). The 2010 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.
Does $157,936 include unitemized Mobile gifts?: No. $157,936 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city MOBILE in cycle 2010. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $33,896,317 is also an itemized aggregate.
Is $1,950 a typical Mobile donor in 2010?: No. $1,950 is $157,936 divided by 81 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Mobile, AL.
Where should I read Mobile without a 2010 filter?: Open the Mobile, AL city hub for the $33,896,317 all-cycle book. Open the 2010 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open Alabama campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.