Pacific Palisades, CA political money — 2012 cycle

Pacific Palisades, CA meets the 2012 presidential cycle

$166,222 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PACIFIC PALISADES with state CA, and election cycle 2012. The match is $166,222 across 203 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $65,378,619. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.25% of Pacific Palisades, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $65,212,397 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Pacific Palisades, CA. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under PACIFIC PALISADES. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Pacific Palisades, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 203 rows and $166,222 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

PACIFIC PALISADES is not LOS ANGELES on the city field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city PACIFIC PALISADES in California totals $65.4 million ($65,378,619). $166,222 is 0.25% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Pacific Palisades; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $166,222 to $65,378,619; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $65,378,619 − $166,222 = $65,212,397 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Los Angeles County, California, on the Westside. Santa Monica, Malibu, and Brentwood labels are other FEC city strings when filers typed them; they are not rolled into PACIFIC PALISADES. State CA stays on the citation so Pacific Palisades is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $65.4 million is the CA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

Presidential-cycle coding for Palisades receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Pacific Palisades, CA filers itemized $166,222 on 203 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $819 per itemized gift ($166,222 ÷ 203). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 203-row extract — a thicker receipt file for this neighborhood string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Pacific Palisades × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. California campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $166,222 into the state hub a second time.

2012 inside the Pacific Palisades city book

0.25% of $65,378,619 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.25% of Pacific Palisades, CA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $166,222 divided by $65,378,619 and $65,212,397 divided by $65,378,619. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.25%) and row volume (203 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Encino and Beverly Hills are other Los Angeles County strings. They are not parents of PACIFIC PALISADES. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.25% as Pacific Palisades’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

203 contribution records are not unique donors

203 itemized contributions totaling $166,222 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of PACIFIC PALISADES. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Pacific Palisades versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $819 uses only the two numbers in the join: $166,222 and 203 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $166,222 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PACIFIC PALISADES is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Pacific Palisades.

Limits of a Pacific Palisades–2012 join

This page does not rank Pacific Palisades against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Pacific Palisades, CA hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Neighborhood names split Los Angeles across many FEC city pages. This join keeps PACIFIC PALISADES only.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Pacific Palisades, CA, the 2012 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Filers who typed LOS ANGELES sit on a different city key. They are not recoded into Pacific Palisades. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Pacific Palisades, CA donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Pacific Palisades, CA total $166,222 in the 2012 cycle, across 203 contribution records. The same city label totals $65,378,619 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.25% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Pacific Palisades city book only 2012 money?

No. The city aggregate of $65,378,619 covers every cycle in the table for PACIFIC PALISADES. The 2012 filter is $166,222 from 203 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $65,212,397. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did 2012 Palisades donations stay with California committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Pacific Palisades, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $166,222 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of California races.

How many Pacific Palisades, CA contributions were itemized in 2012?

203 itemized contribution records sum to $166,222. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $819 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.