Why is Georgia’s FEC total large next to a smaller obligation band than some states?

The series measure different activity. $206.2 million is what 1,189 candidate committees reported raising. $338,575,779,244 is what agencies obligated across 535,884 awards. Fundraising volume and award volume do not lock together. Sources are FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

How Republican is Georgia’s federal candidate fundraising?

Republican committees reported $121.9 million, or 59.1% of $206.2 million. Democratic committees reported $84.3 million (40.9%). Other filers reported $0.0 million. Those shares describe 1,189 committees, not award recipients. LobbyVault joins the GA extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

How many federal awards are coded to Georgia?

USAspending.gov lists 535,884 awards and $338,575,779,244 in obligations. Award count is not unique vendors. It is also not the 1,189 FEC candidate committees. Repeat actions add rows. LobbyVault joins the GA extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Where are Georgia’s hubs?

Georgia campaign finance on LobbyVault and Georgia USAspending on SpendingVault. All FEC ties lists other state joins. Later bulk files override this snapshot if they disagree. LobbyVault joins the GA extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

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Georgia campaign finance next to federal obligations

Georgia federal candidate committees reported $206.2 million — one of the larger FEC books in this join — while USAspending obligations are $338,575,779,244 across 535,884 awards. Republican committees hold 59.1% of receipts. A large receipt book beside a mid-pack obligation total is evidence the ledgers do not track, not evidence that campaigns failed to ‘attract’ awards.

Key figures

Georgia FEC receipts: $206.2 million from 1,189 committees.
Republican committees reported 59.1% of FEC receipts — not of awards.
Georgia USAspending: $338,575,779,244 across 535,884 awards.
A large FEC book does not enlarge the award book. Donations do not fund awards here.

Georgia’s FEC book is large; that does not enlarge the award book

GA joins $206.2 million from 1,189 committees to $338,575,779,244 from 535,884 awards. If donations funded awards, a reader might expect the two ranks to match. They are not even the same kind of rank. Receipts and obligations are unlike units.

A contribution in Atlanta does not become a Savannah obligation because both rows say Georgia. Georgia campaign finance, Georgia USAspending, and All FEC ties are the three links.

Runoff folklore can swell $206.2 million without adding a USAspending row. Leave those receipts on the FEC sentence. 535,884 awards remain an agency extract.

State-office campaigns in Georgia file under state law and sit outside $206.2 million. Local procurement paid without a federal award sits outside $338,575,779,244. This page names two federal disclosure systems — FEC.gov candidate receipts and USAspending.gov awards — and stops. A third system would be a different citation.

Republican-majority receipts on a large FEC roster

Republican committees reported $121.9 million (59.1%). Democratic committees reported $84.3 million (40.9%). Other filers reported $0.0 million (0.0%), a sliver. 1,189 committees include Senate, House, and other federal filers tagged to Georgia, plus residual accounts.

Statewide executive races file with Georgia’s state system, outside $206.2 million. Presidential committees tagged to Georgia remain FEC rows if FEC stored them there. They do not become 535,884 awards.

CDC-adjacent search traffic is not a recipient table. Open Georgia USAspending for agency names. Do not backfill them from 59.1% Republican receipts.

Georgia obligations without an FEC overlay

$338,575,779,244 and 535,884 awards describe agency actions coded to Georgia. CDC-adjacent and military folklore are reasons people search. They are not packet NAICS shares. Open Georgia USAspending for agency fields that exist.

Do not treat $206.2 million as small or large ‘relative to’ $338,575,779,244 as if campaigns were a budget account. Trivial arithmetic on unlike totals is still unlike.

Quote Georgia campaign finance for the live FEC roster of 1,189 committees and $206.2 million in receipts. Quote Georgia USAspending for $338,575,779,244 and 535,884 awards. All FEC ties keeps GA in a series of geographic joins. None of those pages adds receipts to obligations or assigns FEC party codes to awards.

Do not score Georgia on a mixed index

A ‘political money versus federal money’ index that divides $338,575,779,244 by $206.2 million is not a finding. The filers differ. The statutes differ. Influence is not a field in this packet.

Independent expenditures about Georgia candidates can be financed from elsewhere. Those expenditures sit outside both packet totals.

Georgia’s 1,189 committees and 535,884 awards answer different questions. Keep $206.2 million on the FEC.gov sentence and $338,575,779,244 on the USAspending.gov sentence even when a headline wants a single number. A single number would mix statutes. This join will not publish one.

Atlanta is not a hidden third total

Fulton County and the rest of Georgia share GA. This packet does not split $206.2 million or $338,575,779,244 by metro. 1,189 committees and 535,884 awards are statewide. A metro cut would be a different extract.

Other-party receipts of $0.0 million are tiny. Mention them if you publish 59.1% and 40.9% so the pie still closes on $206.2 million.

Amended candidate reports move $206.2 million. Award restatements move $338,575,779,244. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Georgia campaign finance and Georgia USAspending are the live tables; this prose is a packet snapshot for GA.

Georgia citation

FEC.gov: $206.2 million; 1,189 committees; Democratic $84.3 million; Republican $121.9 million; other $0.0 million. USAspending.gov: $338,575,779,244; 535,884 awards. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Do not rank Georgia as more influential because $206.2 million sits beside $338,575,779,244. Influence is not a field in this packet. The join is GA geography only.

Questions

Why is Georgia’s FEC total large next to a smaller obligation band than some states?: The series measure different activity. $206.2 million is what 1,189 candidate committees reported raising. $338,575,779,244 is what agencies obligated across 535,884 awards. Fundraising volume and award volume do not lock together. Sources are FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.
How Republican is Georgia’s federal candidate fundraising?: Republican committees reported $121.9 million, or 59.1% of $206.2 million. Democratic committees reported $84.3 million (40.9%). Other filers reported $0.0 million. Those shares describe 1,189 committees, not award recipients. LobbyVault joins the GA extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.
How many federal awards are coded to Georgia?: USAspending.gov lists 535,884 awards and $338,575,779,244 in obligations. Award count is not unique vendors. It is also not the 1,189 FEC candidate committees. Repeat actions add rows. LobbyVault joins the GA extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.
Where are Georgia’s hubs?: Georgia campaign finance on LobbyVault and Georgia USAspending on SpendingVault. All FEC ties lists other state joins. Later bulk files override this snapshot if they disagree. LobbyVault joins the GA extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Join of FEC.gov candidate receipts with USAspending.gov state obligations. These are different datasets — campaign contributions are not federal awards.