Coral Gables, FL political money — 2012 cycle

Coral Gables, FL meets the 2012 presidential cycle

$171,662 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CORAL GABLES with state FL, and election cycle 2012. The match is $171,662 across 132 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $67,499,133. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.25% of Coral Gables, FL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $67,327,471 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Coral Gables, FL. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under CORAL GABLES. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Coral Gables, FL with every other donor city in the United States. The 132 rows and $171,662 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.

CORAL GABLES is not Miami on the city field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city CORAL GABLES in Florida totals $67.5 million ($67,499,133). $171,662 is 0.25% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Coral Gables; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $171,662 to $67,499,133; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $67,499,133 − $171,662 = $67,327,471 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Coconut Grove, South Miami, and Miami Beach are other FEC city strings, not rolled into CORAL GABLES. State FL stays on the citation so Coral Gables is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $67.5 million is the FL 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 Coral Gables 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, Coral Gables, FL filers itemized $171,662 on 132 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,300 per itemized gift ($171,662 ÷ 132). 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 132-row extract — a mid-size 2012 receipt file for this city string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Florida still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Coral Gables × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Florida campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $171,662 into the state hub a second time.

2012 inside the Coral Gables all-cycle book

0.25% of $67,499,133 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.25% of Coral Gables, FL’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $171,662 divided by $67,499,133 and $67,327,471 divided by $67,499,133. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.25%) and row volume (132 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This 2012 page is not the 2008 Coral Gables join. Each cycle tag is its own URL on the same CORAL GABLES string. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.25% as Coral Gables’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

132 rows omit unitemized and transfer tables

132 itemized contributions totaling $171,662 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 CORAL GABLES. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Coral Gables versus other Florida cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,300 uses only the two numbers in the join: $171,662 and 132 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 $171,662 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed CORAL GABLES is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Coral Gables.

Caveats on a Coral Gables–2012 join

This page does not rank Coral Gables against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Florida. Two columns matched. A FL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Florida candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Coral Gables, FL hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Miami is a neighboring city key. Filers who typed MIAMI are not recoded into Coral Gables.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Coral Gables, FL, the 2012 election cycle, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Key Biscayne and Pinecrest are other Miami-Dade strings. They are not absorbed into CORAL GABLES. 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 Coral Gables, FL donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Coral Gables, FL total $171,662 in the 2012 cycle, across 132 contribution records. The same city label totals $67,499,133 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.25% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Coral Gables’ citywide total only from 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $67,499,133 covers every cycle in the table for CORAL GABLES. The 2012 filter is $171,662 from 132 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $67,327,471. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did 2012 Coral Gables gifts stay with Florida committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Coral Gables, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $171,662 by office, state of the committee, or party. A FL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Florida races.

How many Coral Gables, FL contributions were itemized in 2012?

132 itemized contribution records sum to $171,662. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,300 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.