Dentist political contributions in the 2010 FEC cycle

$2,178,742 as the Dentist–2010 headline

Dentist in 2010 is $2,178,742 on 3,548 itemized lines from 2,054 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2010 is a thin slice of Dentist occupation dollars: 5.9% ($2,178,742 of $36,685,531). The occupation hub is much larger than this one cycle. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

3,548 contributions from 2,054 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 2,054 people still used that title after 2010.

This page is not a restatement of the Dentist hub or of the 2010 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $2,178,742.

Dentist across cycles versus this 2010 slice

Filers who typed dentist produced the all-cycle occupation total of $36,685,531. DENTIST is the occupation string. Specialty titles remain separate. The join does not verify active licenses or practice ownership. Dental association PACs are committee activity, not this occupation filter. The occupation is not an ADA membership roll, a dental PAC independent-expenditure total, or a license census.

Dentist itemization inside the 2010 FEC window

The 2010 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Dentist. $2,178,742 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2010. It is not a 2012 presidential-year filter or a 2014 midterm-year filter.

3,548 contributions from 2,054 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,178,742, 3,548, and 2,054 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,178,742. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,178,742. Three numbers define the Dentist × 2010 cell: dollars $2,178,742, contribution rows 3,548, unique donors 2,054. Share of occupation dollars is 5.9% of $36,685,531.

Occupation plus cycle is not causation

Matching Dentist with 2010 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Dentist donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an ADA membership roll, a dental PAC independent-expenditure total, or a license census.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DENTIST is the occupation string. Specialty titles remain separate. The join does not verify active licenses or practice ownership. Dental association PACs are committee activity, not this occupation filter. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Dentist donations hub is $36,685,531; the 2010 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Dentist and 2010 pages

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 occupation total. The 2010 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Dentist. All occupations places DENTIST beside other titles without merging sibling strings (ORTHODONTIST, DENTAL HYGIENIST, and ORAL SURGEON). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,178,742 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Dentist dollars ($36,685,531). Use the 2010 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,178,742, 3,548 contributions, 2,054 donors, 5.9% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Dentist donations, the 2010 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep DENTIST as the occupation key and 2010 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,178,742.

DENTIST spelling and 2010

The occupation key is DENTIST as stored. Nearby spellings (ORTHODONTIST, DENTAL HYGIENIST, and ORAL SURGEON) are not recoded into this join. 2010 is the cycle key. Those two keys yield $2,178,742.

If a later FEC extract restates itemized receipts, the Commission filing controls. This snapshot is the occupation-cycle pair Dentist × 2010: 3,548 contributions, 2,054 donors, $2,178,742.

Questions

How much did Dentist donors give in 2010?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DENTIST in the 2010 cycle total $2,178,742, from 3,548 contributions and 2,054 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Dentist-coded receipts are $36,685,531. 2010 is 5.9% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Dentist 2010 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,178,742 or in the $36,685,531 occupation figure used here. The join is itemized individual receipts tagged DENTIST, not a dental-association PAC. The 2010 join is $2,178,742 from 3,548 contributions and 2,054 donors.

Is this ADA PAC spending?

No. The join is itemized individual receipts tagged DENTIST, not a dental-association PAC. The 2010 cycle filter on Dentist is $2,178,742, 3,548 contributions, and 2,054 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $36,685,531. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 3,548 Dentist contributions and 2,054 donors in 2010?

The 2010 join includes 3,548 itemized contributions from 2,054 donors totaling $2,178,742. 3,548 contributions from 2,054 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.