CME political money — 2010 cycle

CME as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — CME and 2010 — sum to $648,386. 542 itemized contributions and 163 unique donors produced it. The total is not a corporate treasury gift and is not the company’s PAC. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the CME hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. CME is a three-letter employer/industry string as stored. The FEC does not expand it to CME Group or to a membership roll of traders. 163 donors and 542 lines in 2010 matched that employer text. CME GROUP, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, CHICAGO MERC, and other exchange spellings sit in other keys. This page is the stored string CME.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open CME 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the CME 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $648,386, 542 contributions, 163 donors, and 6.1% of $10,607,839.

6.1% of the CME roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,607,839. The 2010 slice of $648,386 is about 6.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.9% ($9,959,453). Treating 2010 as the CME FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $10,607,839 as the denominator for the 6.1% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $10,607,839.

A 6.1% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same CME hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open CME to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

542 contributions from 163 donors

Dividing $648,386 by 542 contributions yields about $1,196 per itemized gift. Dividing by 163 donors yields about $3,978 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

163 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for CME 2010 holds the rows.

542 is a receipt count, not a unique-person census beyond the 163 donor figure already in the packet. A person who gave twice is two lines inside the 542. Unitemized gifts never appear in $648,386.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. CME 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 employer filter and CME to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $648,386 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. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 542 contributions, the 163 unique donors, and the 6.1% share of $10,607,839.

2010 is a midterm federal cycle on FEC.gov. That calendar label does not explain $648,386. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix beyond the stored string CME. Cite the two packet dollars — $648,386 for the 2010 slice and $10,607,839 for the CME book — and stop before assigning motive.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $648,386. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not an exchange PAC and not a futures NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 163 donors, and 542 contributions. CME GROUP, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, CHICAGO MERC, and other exchange spellings sit in other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not read $648,386 as proof that CME “drove” the 2010 cycle or that 2010 “drove” the CME book. The join is two fields. If the live hubs disagree with $648,386 or 163 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Citing CME and 2010 together

Start with $648,386, then CME 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: CME, 2010, $648,386, 542 contributions, 163 donors, 6.1% of $10,607,839, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string CME.

The 6.1% share, the 163-donor count, and the $1,196 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did CME-listed donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $648,386 in itemized individual contributions for the CME grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 542 contributions and 163 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,607,839 all-cycle figure.

What share of CME FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,607,839. The 2010 cell of $648,386 is about 6.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.9% ($9,959,453) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the CME hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $648,386 the CME PAC total for 2010?

No. $648,386 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to CME in the 2010 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 542 contributions came from 163 donors.

Where is the overlay for the CME 2010 join?

Open CME 2010 for the cycle overlay, CME for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.