Golden, CO political money — 2012 cycle

Golden, CO × 2012 is a compact city-cycle join

$167,010 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city GOLDEN with state CO, and election cycle 2012. The match is $167,010 across 53 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $24,169,646. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.69% of Golden, CO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $24,002,636 (99.3%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Golden, CO. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under GOLDEN. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Golden, CO with every other donor city in the United States. The 53 rows and $167,010 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 packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not a Colorado TRACER state-campaign total, a foothills ranking, or a Denver rollup. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

GOLDEN as a Jefferson County address field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city GOLDEN in Colorado totals $24.2 million ($24,169,646). $167,010 is 0.69% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Golden; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $167,010 to $24,169,646; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $24,169,646 − $167,010 = $24,002,636 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Jefferson County, Colorado, west of Denver. Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, and Boulder are other FEC city strings, not rolled into GOLDEN. State CO stays on the citation so Golden is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $24.2 million is the CO 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 53 Golden lines

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, Golden, CO filers itemized $167,010 on 53 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $3,151 per itemized gift ($167,010 ÷ 53). 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 53-row extract — compact for this city string, still a short receipt file rather than unique households. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Colorado still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Golden × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Colorado campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $167,010 into the state hub a second time.

2012 versus the rest of the Golden book

0.69% of $24,169,646 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.69% of Golden, CO’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.3% were not. Those percentages are $167,010 divided by $24,169,646 and $24,002,636 divided by $24,169,646. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.69%) and row volume (53 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Denver is a neighboring city key. Filers who typed DENVER are not recoded into Golden. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.69% as Golden’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

A higher mean from 53 rows is still division

53 itemized contributions totaling $167,010 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 $3,151 uses only the two numbers in the join: $167,010 and 53 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 $167,010 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed GOLDEN is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Golden.

Caveats on a Golden–2012 match

This page does not rank Golden against other cities, does not call 2012 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 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Fifty-three rows can be repeat givers or many households. This packet does not say which, and it publishes no median.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Golden, CO, the 2012 election cycle, Colorado campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Golden, Colorado, is not merged with other U.S. places named Golden. The packet state is CO. 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 Golden, CO donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Golden, CO total $167,010 in the 2012 cycle, across 53 contribution records. The same city label totals $24,169,646 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.69% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Golden’s city book cover only 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $24,169,646 covers every cycle in the table for GOLDEN. The 2012 filter is $167,010 from 53 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $24,002,636. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did 2012 Golden donations stay with Colorado committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Golden, CO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $167,010 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 2012?

53 itemized contribution records sum to $167,010. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,151 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.