CME and the 2012 FEC election cycle

CME crossed with 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — CME and 2012 — sum to $784,127. 547 itemized contributions and 159 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the CME hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. CME is the stored three-letter acronym. One hundred fifty-nine donors and 547 lines in 2012 matched that short string. Filers who spelled Chicago Mercantile Exchange or CME Group may sit on longer keys. This join does not merge those spellings into the acronym cell. CME GROUP, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, CME INC, and generic TRADER occupation strings are other keys if stored separately.

7.4% of the CME roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,607,839 ($10.6 million). The 2012 slice of $784,127 is about 7.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.6%. Treating 2012 as the CME FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $10,607,839 as the denominator for the 7.4% 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 2012 from being folded silently into $10,607,839.

547 contributions from 159 donors

Dividing $784,127 by 547 contributions yields about $1,434 per itemized gift. Dividing by 159 donors yields about $4,932 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.4. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

159 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 2012 holds the rows.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 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 2012 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 $784,127 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 547 contributions, the 159 unique donors, and the 7.4% share of $10,607,839.

Limits of the CME × 2012 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $784,127. 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 a securities-exchange NAICS total and not a CME PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 159 donors, and 547 contributions. CME GROUP, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, CME INC, and generic TRADER occupation strings are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing CME and 2012 together

Start with $784,127, then CME 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: CME, 2012, $784,127, 547 contributions, 159 donors, 7.4% of $10,607,839, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.4% share, the 159-donor count, and the $1,434 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 donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $784,127 in itemized individual contributions for the CME grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 547 contributions and 159 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,607,839 all-cycle figure.

What share of CME FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,607,839. The 2012 cell of $784,127 is about 7.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.6% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the CME hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this CME’s PAC or an official account?

No. $784,127 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to CME. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a securities-exchange NAICS total and not a CME PAC.

Where is the overlay for the CME 2012 join?

Open CME 2012 for the cycle overlay, CME for the grouping hub, and the 2012 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.