Auto Dealer donations in the 2010 FEC cycle

Auto Dealer × 2010

AUTO DEALER plus cycle 2010 equals $467,353. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2010. Car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer, and auto sales are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an NADA member roster, a state dealer-license file, or a franchise-census. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Auto Dealer donations at /occupations/auto-dealer/ and the 2010 election cycle at /election-cycles/2010/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $467,353 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Auto Dealer in 2010 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $467,353. New versus used versus franchise versus independent dealerships is unpublished for Auto Dealer in 2010. The occupation page and the 2010 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. AUTO DEALER in 2010 is a midterm cell. Dealer without auto is a shorter neighboring string and is not recoded into this title.

AUTO DEALER, not a recode

$12.0 million ($12,020,006) belongs to the exact string AUTO DEALER across harvested cycles. It is not an NADA member roster, a state dealer-license file, or a franchise-census. People who wrote nearby wording — car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer, and auto sales — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2010 slice is 3.9% of that title bucket. Share of AUTO DEALER is not share of all 2010 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $467,353. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $12,020,006. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Auto Dealer donations and the live 2010 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $467,353.

464 auto dealer receipts in a midterm

262 donors and 464 receipts — about 1.8 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,007; mean per donor about $1,784. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 262 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 464 is a line count, not 262 one-time gifts; about 1.8 lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. New versus used versus franchise versus independent dealerships is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by AUTO DEALER. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $467,353.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored occupation for that window. Auto Dealer is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the occupation filter and Auto Dealer donations to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $467,353 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. This join publishes the cycle total, the 464 contributions, the 262 unique donors, and the 3.9% share of $12,020,006. AUTO DEALER in 2010 is a midterm cell. Dealer without auto is a shorter neighboring string and is not recoded into this title.

Generic auto dealer versus neighboring keys and PACs

Cite $467,353 as Auto Dealer in 2010. Cite $12,020,006 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add auto-dealer association PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $467,353 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 3.9%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode AUTO DEALER into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a midterm-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite auto dealer money in 2010

A clean footnote names occupation AUTO DEALER, election cycle 2010, $467,353 in itemized individual contributions, 464 receipts, and 262 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $1,007 per line and $1,784 per donor in the cell. If the live Auto Dealer donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 464 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Auto Dealer donations rolls every cycle into one AUTO DEALER running total. The 2010 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2010 total. Only the Auto Dealer × 2010 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 464 receipts and $467,353. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did auto dealer filers donate in 2010?

Filers who listed Auto Dealer itemized $467,353 in FEC individual contributions in 2010, from 464 receipts and 262 donors. That is 3.9% of $12,020,006 under AUTO DEALER. Car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer, and auto sales are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include auto-dealer association PAC filings?

No. $467,353 is individual contributions tagged Auto Dealer in 2010. Auto-dealer association PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $467,353 would blend FEC tables. See Auto Dealer donations or the 2010 election cycle hub for committee names. Auto Dealer in 2010 is $467,353 on 464 receipts from 262 donors.

Are auto dealer labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses AUTO DEALER. Car dealer, automobile dealer, dealer, and auto sales are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an NADA member roster, a state dealer-license file, or a franchise-census. Cite $467,353 for this title in 2010 on 464 receipts from 262 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Auto Dealer donations ($12.0 million for the string) and the 2010 election cycle. The overlap is $467,353 from 464 receipts and 262 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Auto Dealer in 2010.