Economist political contributions from District of Columbia

The Economist–District of Columbia overlap

Occupation ECONOMIST and donor state DC produce $2,290,194, 7,199 contributions, and 268 donors. The occupation hub is $15,061,265, 47,419 contributions, and 1,790 donors. The District’s dollar share is about 15%; contribution share about 15% (7,199 of 47,419); donor share about 15% (268 of 1,790).

The three shares match. The DC Economist join is a proportional slice of the labeled occupation, unlike Massachusetts’s Economist join, where about 17% of dollars sit with about 5% of donors. Same occupation string, different state filters, different shapes. Neither page ranks think tanks.

Two hundred sixty-eight District donors produced 7,199 contributions, about 27 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 26 rows per donor nationally (47,419 contributions from 1,790 donors). The District’s about 15% shares of dollars, contributions, and donors of the $15,061,265 line up. That proportional DC slice contrasts with Massachusetts’s Economist join, where dollars and donors diverge.

Economist as a title in a government town

ECONOMIST on a DC-coded receipt can mean a federal employee, a contractor, an academic, or a consultant. The FEC file does not verify employer or Hatch Act status. One thousand seven hundred ninety donors and $15,061,265 nationwide are the labeled bucket, not 1,790 current government economists.

Chief of Staff and Government Affairs are other DC occupation ties. Those strings are not this join. Adding their District dollar figures to $2,290,194 would mix labels.

District of Columbia as donor state

Two hundred sixty-eight DC donors produced 7,199 contributions totaling $2,290,194. Donor state DC is the address on the record. It does not prove current federal employment and does not limit gifts to District-related committees.

The District campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to DC. This join is only ECONOMIST. Senior Vice President is another DC occupation tie in this slice with different donor counts.

The District hub includes Chief of Staff, Government Affairs, and Senior Vice President ties. ECONOMIST is only this filter. The Economist occupation hub without DC still holds about 85% of the $15,061,265. Virginia and Massachusetts Economist ties are parallel cuts, not a ranking of shops.

Caveats across the three Economist state pages

Massachusetts, Virginia, and the District each have Economist ties in this packet slice. Read them as parallel cuts of $15,061,265, not as a ranking of economic expertise or political weight. Correlation is not causation. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping match.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized receipts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

ECONOMIST on a DC receipt is not an OPM job series. Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Hatch Act status is not in the file. Donor state DC is not recipient geography. Correlation is not causation.

Reading Economist and District of Columbia as two keys

Subtract the District of Columbia dollars on this page from the national Economist occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Economist in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the District of Columbia dollars, or only the Economist national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Related hubs

Economist donations holds the $15,061,265 national occupation total. District of Columbia campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to DC. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Economist donors in DC given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Economist and state District of Columbia total $2,290,194, from 7,199 contributions and 268 donors. Nationwide, Economist-coded receipts are $15,061,265 from 47,419 contributions and 1,790 donors. The District is about 15% of those dollars.

Are these federal government economists?

The FEC file does not verify employer. Occupation is ECONOMIST and state is DC on the itemized record. The 268 DC donors used that pair of labels. That is not an OPM or agency roster.

What share of Economist FEC money is from the District?

About 15% of the $15,061,265 occupation total is in this DC join ($2,290,194). The District also accounts for about 15% of contributions (7,199 of 47,419) and about 15% of donors (268 of 1,790). Those percentages line up more closely than in the Massachusetts Economist join.

Does this money stay in District of Columbia races?

Not necessarily. Donor state is DC. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,290,194 by office or recipient geography.