ACTBLUE and Miami, FL contribution overlap

Relationship between Miami and ACTBLUE

This page is a JOIN. One side is the filer-entered city MIAMI in Florida. The other side is ACTBLUE on C00401224. $771,480 is what remains after both filters. Opening only the Miami, FL hub restates $328,965,856. Opening only the committee hub restates every city that gave to C00401224. Adding those hubs together double-counts.

City labels are filer-entered. MIAMI is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A neighboring municipality is another hub. A MIAMI line to a different committee ID sits in the leftover $328,194,376, not in $771,480. Miami’s ACTBLUE cell is $771,480, the largest recipientTotal on this slice, against a $328,965,856 city book. Fort Lauderdale’s SLF PAC page and Orlando’s ACTBLUE page are other Florida filters. MIAMI is not Miami Beach and is not a county roll-up.

City hub versus this cell

Take the committee filter off and MIAMI still shows $328,965,856 itemized. $771,480 is the slice tagged to C00401224. Open the Miami, FL hub for the remainder $328,194,376. Do not subtract by hand from a different extract dated on another night.

Miami is displayed for readers; MIAMI is the grouping key. Titles use Miami, FL. The leftover $328,194,376 is $328,965,856 minus $771,480 on this extract only. The Florida hub is a different roll-up.

Committee hub versus this cell

C00401224 is disclosed as ACTBLUE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $771,480 is itemized individual receipts storing city MIAMI and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Long or truncated FEC names stay as stored. DBA clauses, AKA clauses, slashes, and parentheticals are part of the label on C00401224. Short titles on this page still point at that ID. Do not invent a cleaner legal name.

Exact-match city strings

0.23% of $328,965,856 is $771,480 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Miami, FL as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $328,965,856 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.23% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $328,194,376 under the MIAMI city string went to other committees. The Miami, FL hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store MIAMI. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Outside the $771,480 total

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $771,480. Florida state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $771,480 as proof that Miami, FL funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Florida. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $771,480 to federal spending in Florida.

How researchers should quote C00401224

Internal links go to Miami, FL, ACTBLUE, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $328,965,856 book and the committees that received the leftover $328,194,376. The committee page holds C00401224 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Miami, FL and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $771,480 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. Cite $771,480, $328,965,856, 0.23%, leftover $328,194,376, and C00401224.

Questions

What is the Miami × ACTBLUE FEC total?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city MIAMI and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $771,480 in this extract. That is the join, not Miami, FL's all-committee book of $328,965,856. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is MIAMI merged with nearby cities?

No. MIAMI is the exact stored city string with state FL. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $771,480. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Miami, FL hub for the all-committee book of $328,965,856.

How much of the $329M Miami book is C00401224?

$771,480 is 0.23% of the $328,965,856 Miami, FL city book. The leftover $328,194,376 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 0.23% into a ranking of civic preference.

Do Miami donations to ACTBLUE fund USAspending awards?

No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into a federal award in Florida. Cite FEC.gov for $771,480 from MIAMI to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $328,965,856 for the Miami, FL city book.