Author political money in the 2010 FEC cycle

Author as occupation, 2010 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation AUTHOR and election cycle 2010. Matching rows sum to $395,146, 297 contributions, and 127 donors. The occupation hub is $19,237,050 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2010 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2010’s dollar share is 2.1% ($395,146 of $19,237,050). The remainder, $18,841,904, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. 297 lines from 127 donors—about 2.3 gifts per person—is arithmetic on the packet, not a unique-person headcount of everyone who held the job. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $395,146.

Author’s 2010 share of the lifetime string

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $19,237,050. The 2010 slice of $395,146 is about 2.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 97.9%. Treating 2010 as the entire Author FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $19,237,050 as the denominator for the 2.1% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The occupation hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $19,237,050.

127 donors and about 2.3 gifts per donor

Dividing $395,146 by 297 contributions yields about $1,330 per gift. Dividing by 127 donors yields about $3,111 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.3 (297 ÷ 127). Those ratios describe this string in 2010, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

127 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2010. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 127 figure.

What 2.1% of Author-coded dollars is not

A 2.1% share of Author-coded dollars from 2010 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2010 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $395,146 as itemized individual receipts tagged AUTHOR in 2010, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

The 2.1% ratio is $395,146 divided by $19,237,050. Other even-year joins for AUTHOR are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $18,841,904. Citing 2010 as if it were the Author lifetime total would overstate this cell by $18,841,904.

A mean of $1,330 per itemized line and $3,111 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 297 contributions remaining larger than 127 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

How to cite Author × 2010

A complete claim names Author and 2010, then $395,146, 297 contributions, 127 donors, and 2.1% of $19,237,050, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 127 keys into licensed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Author and 2010—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $1,330 and mean per donor $3,111 travel with those counts.

FEC cycle 2010 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $395,146 if they were itemized against AUTHOR. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

Writer, novelist, and journalist remain other occupation keys if stored separately. They are not inside $395,146 or $19,237,050 unless the stored string was exactly AUTHOR.

Occupation hub, 2010 hub, and neighboring titles

The occupation hub still holds $18,841,904 outside 2010. Most of the $19,237,050 roll is not this cycle’s cell. Writer, novelist, and journalist are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of AUTHOR on this page. Gifts per donor in 2010 average about 2.3. That ratio is 297 divided by 127, not a measure of turnout.

Quote both keys: Author and 2010. Quote the dollars: $395,146. Quote the volume: 297 contributions, 127 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave USAspending dollars and named donors out.

Questions

How much did Author-tagged donors give in 2010?

The join records $395,146 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Author in the 2010 FEC cycle, from 297 contributions and 127 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $19,237,050, so 2010 is 2.1% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What share of Author FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $19,237,050. The 2010 cell of $395,146 is about 2.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 97.9% ($18,841,904) on the occupation hub. Do not treat 2010 as the whole Author story. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates by occupation and cycle.

Does this count every author who donated in 2010?

No. The 127 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to AUTHOR in 2010. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $395,146 on 297 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate. Writer, novelist, and journalist are other keys if stored separately.

Where are the live Author and 2010 tables?

Author donations carries the $19,237,050 occupation total. The 2010 election cycle hub places Author beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Author × 2010 intersection only.