Golden, CO political money — 2010 cycle

How Golden, CO meets the 2010 election cycle

$127,048 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city GOLDEN with state CO, and election cycle 2010. The match is $127,048 across 44 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $24,169,646. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.53% of Golden, CO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $24,042,598 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Golden, CO. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under GOLDEN. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Golden, CO with every other donor city. The 44 rows and $127,048 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.

The Golden, CO side of the join

The city aggregate for Golden, CO is $24,169,646 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $127,048 from 2010 and the $24,042,598 from every other cycle in the same city file. Colorado campaign-finance pages still mix Golden with every other city in CO.

The stored city is Golden in Jefferson County, Colorado. Denver, Boulder, and Lakewood are other Colorado city keys. GOLDEN is not recoded into Denver. Keep CO so Golden, CO is not mixed with another Golden. $24,169,646 is the CO key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Golden, CO, the city stack is $24,169,646 while this cycle is $127,048 (0.53%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for Colorado filers in Golden

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $127,048. Inside that window, Golden, CO donors itemized $127,048 on 44 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,887 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

Forty-four receipts totaling $127,048 against a $24,169,646 Golden book is about 0.53% of city dollars. Forty-four lines with a high dollars-per-line ratio is a thin 2010 midterm file. The packet has no unique-donor count. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Colorado still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Golden × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2010 as a high-mean cut of Golden’s city stack

0.53% of $24,169,646 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $24,042,598. Put another way, about 0.53% of Golden, CO itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $127,048 divided by $24,169,646 and $24,042,598 divided by $24,169,646. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.53%) and row volume (44 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.53% as Golden’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $127,048 does not measure

44 itemized contributions totaling $127,048 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 GOLDEN. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Golden versus other Colorado cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $2,887 uses only $127,048 and 44 rows.

$127,048 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city GOLDEN. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Colorado file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Golden can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Golden and 2010 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Golden against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Colorado. Two columns matched. A CO address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Colorado candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Golden, CO hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Golden, CO, the 2010 election cycle, Colorado campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov. Canonical path is /ties/co-golden-2010-donations/.

Questions

What did Golden, CO filers report in the 2010 cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Golden, CO total $127,048 in the 2010 cycle, across 44 contribution records. The same city label totals $24,169,646 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.53% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Golden, CO city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $24,169,646 covers every cycle in the table for GOLDEN. The 2010 filter is $127,048 from 44 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $24,042,598. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Golden, CO 2010 donations stay in Colorado?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Golden, CO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $127,048 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CO city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Colorado races.

How many Golden, CO contributions were itemized in 2010?

44 itemized contribution records sum to $127,048. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,887 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.