How much have Author donors in Maine given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Author and state Maine total $527,362. That join includes 17,408 contributions and 7 donors. Nationwide, Author-coded receipts are $19,237,050 from 1,158 donors and 53,599 contributions. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Why 17,408 contributions from only 7 donors?

The Maine side is 7 donors, 17,408 contributions, and $527,362. A small donor count with a large row count means many itemized lines attach to few identities. About 32% of national Author contribution rows are in this join, versus about 2.7% of Author dollars. Donors are not named.

Does Author mean published book authors?

The field is the string AUTHOR as entered. It is not a publisher roster. Nationally the label covers 1,158 donors and $19,237,050. This tie only adds the Maine state filter Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Maine races. This join is $527,362 from 7 donors and 17,408 contributions against $19,237,050 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.

Did this money go to Maine campaigns?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Maine. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $527,362 by office Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Maine races. This join is $527,362 from 7 donors and 17,408 contributions against $19,237,050 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.

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Author political contributions from Maine

Donors who listed their occupation as Author and their state as Maine account for $527,362 in FEC itemized individual contributions. That Maine slice covers 17,408 contributions from 7 donors. Nationwide, the Author occupation grouping totals $19,237,050 across 53,599 contributions and 1,158 donors. This page joins those two FEC fields. Seven donors produced tens of thousands of itemized lines; the page still does not name them.

Key figures

Maine Author-coded donors account for $527,362, 17,408 contributions, and 7 donors.
The national Author total is $19,237,050 from 1,158 donors and 53,599 contributions—about 2.7% of dollars and about 32% of contribution rows are in this Maine join.
Seven donors are about 0.6% of the national Author donor count.
Line volume and dollar volume tell different stories on this occupation-state pair.

Seven Maine donors and 17,408 contribution rows

Occupation AUTHOR and state ME together produce $527,362, 17,408 contributions, and 7 donors. The occupation nationwide is $19,237,050, 53,599 contributions, and 1,158 donors. Maine holds about 2.7% of Author-coded dollars, about 32% of Author-coded contribution rows, and about 0.60% of Author-coded donors.

About one-third of all Author-coded contribution lines in the national aggregate are Maine-coded, yet they come from 7 of 1,158 donors. Dollar share stays small (about 2.7%). The join is a line-volume spike on a tiny identity set, not a dollar takeover of the $19,237,050 occupation.

Seven Maine donors and 17,408 contribution rows produced $527,362 under AUTHOR. The occupation side is $19,237,050, 53,599 contributions, and 1,158 donors. About 32% of Author contribution rows and about 2.7% of Author dollars cannot be summarized by a single percentage. WRITER is a different string. The 17,408 rows are not 17,408 people. They are itemized individual lines attached to 7 contributor identities listing AUTHOR and ME.

AUTHOR as a national occupation bucket

AUTHOR is the typed string. WRITER, NOVELIST, and JOURNALIST are other pages. The national totals—$19,237,050 from 1,158 donors and 53,599 contributions—already show many itemized lines per identity. Maine’s 17,408 of those 53,599 rows concentrate a large share of that line volume on seven contributor identities.

The occupation field does not confirm book contracts, bestsellers, or self-publishing. It is a label. This page adds only the Maine donor-state filter.

Maine as donor state, not as a literary census

Seven Maine donors produced 17,408 contributions totaling $527,362. Other Maine occupations are outside this join. Author receipts from other states fill the remainder of $19,237,050.

ME is the contributor state. It does not prove a Maine residence at publication time or a gift to Maine federal candidates. Recipient committees can file anywhere in the FEC system.

Line volume is not dollar volume

Thirty-two percent of contribution rows and 2.7% of dollars can coexist when many itemized lines are small relative to fewer, larger lines elsewhere in the national occupation. The join reports both counts so that 17,408 is not mistaken for 17,408 people or for a third of Author dollars.

This page does not compute a typical gift. Seven donors need not have given similar amounts. Naming them would require a donor table this packet does not include.

Why 17,408 lines are not 17,408 people

Maine’s Author join has 7 donors and 17,408 contribution rows. Those rows are about 32% of the 53,599 Author-coded lines nationwide. The 7 donors are about 0.60% of 1,158. The $527,362 is about 2.7% of $19,237,050. Line share and people share have almost nothing in common. Reporting only the dollar figure would hide the row spike; reporting only the row spike would hide how little of the occupation’s money is involved.

High row counts on few identities usually mean many itemized gifts attached to a small set of contributor keys. This page does not say the 7 people gave equally, and it does not name them. WRITER and JOURNALIST remain other occupation strings. They are not inside the 17,408 rows.

Unitemized gifts are absent by definition. Independent expenditures are a different form. Donor state ME is not a list of Maine publishers. The Author occupation hub holds $19,237,050, 53,599 contributions, and 1,158 donors. Maine campaign finance holds all occupations coded to ME. All occupations and all FEC ties complete the surrounding map.

What the relationship excludes

This page does not treat Maine authors as a political movement, and it does not rank states by literary giving. Two columns matched. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. See Author donations, Maine campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Questions

How much have Author donors in Maine given?: FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Author and state Maine total $527,362. That join includes 17,408 contributions and 7 donors. Nationwide, Author-coded receipts are $19,237,050 from 1,158 donors and 53,599 contributions. Occupation labels are filer-entered.
Why 17,408 contributions from only 7 donors?: The Maine side is 7 donors, 17,408 contributions, and $527,362. A small donor count with a large row count means many itemized lines attach to few identities. About 32% of national Author contribution rows are in this join, versus about 2.7% of Author dollars. Donors are not named.
Does Author mean published book authors?: The field is the string AUTHOR as entered. It is not a publisher roster. Nationally the label covers 1,158 donors and $19,237,050. This tie only adds the Maine state filter Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Maine races. This join is $527,362 from 7 donors and 17,408 contributions against $19,237,050 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.
Did this money go to Maine campaigns?: Not necessarily. Donor state is Maine. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $527,362 by office Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Maine races. This join is $527,362 from 7 donors and 17,408 contributions against $19,237,050 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state. Occupation labels are filer-entered.