Mobile, AL political money — 2012 cycle

Mobile in 2012: the intersection number

$210,636 appears only when donor city is MOBILE in AL and the cycle is 2012. 93 itemized rows accompany that dollar figure. The unmatched city total is $33,896,317. 2012 holds 0.62% of it; other even-year windows hold $33,685,681 (99.4%). Call that a minority slice of the city stack — a description of this ratio, not of other cities.

Restating the Mobile, AL hub would mix years. Restating the 2012 hub would mix cities. This page keeps both constraints. Intersection is not causation. The facts do not say why people gave, which committees they chose, or whether those committees were in Alabama.

2012 is a presidential FEC cycle (two-year window; presidential general included). Window type does not explain $210,636. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Citywide Mobile, AL dollars

$33,896,317 is the city label across cycles. $210,636 is nested inside it; $33,685,681 is the rest. Neither number is unique residents. Alabama finance pages still list every city in the state, not only Mobile.

The stored city is Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast. Mobile County as a whole is not the city string; Prichard and Spanish Fort file separately if donors typed those names. State AL stays on the citation. The AL key is mandatory: $33,896,317 is not a national homonym total. City stack $33,896,317 versus cycle cell $210,636 (0.62%) should stay distinct. Drop the year on the city hub; keep 2012 here. Recipient city can differ from Mobile.

The 2012 cycle tag explained

Cycle 2012 on FEC.gov is two years wide. In that span Mobile, AL shows $210,636 and 93 itemized gifts. $210,636 / 93 ≈ $2,265. That is a row mean. Median and unique-donor counts are not in the packet.

Other cities remain on the 2012 cycle hub. Other years remain on Alabama and Mobile hubs. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. 93 itemized rows is a moderate absolute count of receipts for this join. Follow internal links for the wider tables; this slug is the pair only.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $210,636 is the 2012 cell for Mobile, AL: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 93 records. $33,896,317 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $33,685,681 in other even-year windows. Citing $33,896,317 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $210,636 as the lifetime Mobile total mixes the join into the city hub. 93 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 93 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.62% is dollars only — $210,636 divided by $33,896,317 — not a share of Alabama and not a share of the national 2012 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $210,636 or $33,896,317. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

0.62% of Mobile is 2012

0.62% is $210,636 as a share of $33,896,317. 99.4% is $33,685,681 as a share of $33,896,317. About 0.62% of Mobile, AL itemized individual dollars in this aggregate are 2012; about 99.4% are not. Those are city-stack shares only.

Do not blend 0.62% with 93 into a single ranking. There is no all-cycle row total here, so no row percentage. 0.62% is not a share of national 2012 receipts; that denominator is missing from the facts.

Counts the packet does not contain

93 itemized contributions totaling $210,636 define the cell. Multiple dates, multiple committees, and variants of MOBILE can repeat households. Unique people are not estimated. Mobile is not ranked among Alabama cities.

$2,265 comes from $210,636 and 93 alone. No occupation or committee split of the $210,636 appears here. Receipts that used another city string are out, even in the same metro.

How to use this ties URL

This write-up does not rank Mobile, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as Alabama public opinion. Contributor geography is not campaign geography. AL on an individual receipt is not a promise the money stayed in Alabama. Amendments can revise totals. Live hubs control if they differ.

Omitted tables: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, USAspending. See Mobile, AL; 2012 election cycle; Alabama campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much FEC money from Mobile, AL is tagged 2012?

$210,636 in itemized individual contributions (93 records). The all-cycle city total is $33,896,317, so 2012 is 0.62% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov city-and-cycle aggregates.

What is the difference between $210,636 and $33,896,317?

$210,636 is Mobile, AL in 2012 only (93 gifts). $33,896,317 is MOBILE across every cycle in the table. The gap, $33,685,681, is other cycles. City hub versus this tie page.

Did Mobile 2012 donors give only inside Alabama?

The join does not say. Donor city is Mobile, AL; committees can be anywhere. $210,636 is not allocated by office, party, or committee state. A AL city field is not a Alabama race map.

How many itemized rows are in the Mobile 2012 cell?

93 rows sum to $210,636 (about $2,265 per row). Rows ≠ unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are not in the 93. Unique-donor totals are not in these facts.