San Diego, CA political money — 2010 cycle

San Diego, CA × 2010 is a midterm city-cycle join

$174,988 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SAN DIEGO with state CA, and election cycle 2010. The match is $174,988 across 230 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $156,910,327. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.11% of San Diego, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $156,735,339 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of San Diego, CA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under SAN DIEGO. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes San Diego, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 230 rows and $174,988 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.

SAN DIEGO as a Southern California address field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city SAN DIEGO in California totals $156.9 million ($156,910,327). $174,988 is 0.11% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in San Diego; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $174,988 to $156,910,327; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $156,910,327 − $174,988 = $156,735,339 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in San Diego County, California. La Jolla, Chula Vista, and Coronado are other FEC city strings when filers typed those names; they are not rolled into SAN DIEGO. State CA stays on the citation so San Diego is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $156.9 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.

The 2010 two-year FEC window, not a calendar year

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2010 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, San Diego, CA filers itemized $174,988 on 230 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $761 per itemized gift ($174,988 ÷ 230). 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 230-row extract — a thicker receipt file for this city string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates San Diego × 2010. 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 $174,988 into the state hub a second time.

A small share of a large San Diego city book

0.11% of $156,910,327 is the 2010 slice. Put another way, about 0.11% of San Diego, CA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $174,988 divided by $156,910,327 and $156,735,339 divided by $156,910,327. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.11%) and row volume (230 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Los Angeles and San Francisco are other California city keys. This 2010 join does not rank SAN DIEGO against them. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.11% as San Diego’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

230 rows omit unitemized and transfer tables

230 itemized contributions totaling $174,988 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 SAN DIEGO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of San Diego versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $761 uses only the two numbers in the join: $174,988 and 230 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 $174,988 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SAN DIEGO is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into San Diego.

Caveats on a San Diego–2010 match

This page does not rank San Diego against other cities, does not call 2010 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 San Diego, CA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm 2010 label does not mean every receipt supported a House race. Office sought is unpublished on this packet.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See San Diego, CA, the 2010 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Tijuana is not an FEC U.S. city key on this page. The stored state is CA and the stored city is SAN DIEGO. 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 San Diego, CA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing San Diego, CA total $174,988 in the 2010 cycle, across 230 contribution records. The same city label totals $156,910,327 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.11% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is San Diego’s all-cycle FEC total only from 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $156,910,327 covers every cycle in the table for SAN DIEGO. The 2010 filter is $174,988 from 230 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $156,735,339. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did 2010 San Diego itemized gifts stay with California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is San Diego, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $174,988 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 San Diego, CA contributions were itemized in 2010?

230 itemized contribution records sum to $174,988. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $761 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.