What is the Honolulu and 2010 join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of contributor city HONOLULU with state HI and election cycle 2010: $165,315 on 173 itemized receipts. The Honolulu, HI hub still mixes other cycles ($78,939,472 citywide). The 2010 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.

Does $165,315 include unitemized Honolulu gifts?

No. $165,315 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city HONOLULU in cycle 2010. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $78,939,472 is also an itemized aggregate.

Is $956 a typical Honolulu donor in 2010?

No. $956 is $165,315 divided by 173 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Honolulu, HI.

Where should I read Honolulu without a 2010 filter?

Open the Honolulu, HI city hub for the $78,939,472 all-cycle book. Open the 2010 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open Hawaii campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.

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Honolulu, HI political money — 2010 cycle

173 itemized FEC receipts listing contributor city HONOLULU in HI sum to $165,315 in the 2010 midterm election cycle. That receipt file is the city-cycle join on LobbyVault, not the Honolulu, HI all-cycle book of $78,939,472 and not a national 2010 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed by donor city and election cycle.

Key figures

FEC.gov records $165,315 from contributor city HONOLULU in cycle 2010 (173 receipts).
Other cycles under the same Honolulu, HI label hold $78,774,157 of the $78,939,472 city book.
2010 is a midterm election cycle; that calendar fact does not explain $165,315.
173 is a row count, not a headcount of Honolulu residents.
FEC itemized receipts are not USAspending awards.

$165,315 is a join, not a restatement of Honolulu

LobbyVault stores $165,315 so a reader can open the Honolulu, HI city hub and the 2010 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles ($78,939,472). The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Honolulu, HI in 2010.

173 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. Arithmetic mean per line is about $956 ($165,315 ÷ 173). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join.

2010 is a midterm election cycle. Cite the two packet dollars — $165,315 for the 2010 slice and $78,939,472 for the Honolulu, HI book — and stop before assigning motive. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Reading the Honolulu, HI city book

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city HONOLULU in Hawaii totals $78,939,472. $165,315 is 0.21% of that city book — a thin slice of the citywide book. A thin or small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Honolulu; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Honolulu, HI table is the place to compare other years.

Honolulu is stored as the City and County of Honolulu on Oahu. Hilo, Kahului, and Kailua are other Hawaii city strings when filers typed those names. State HI stays on the citation so Honolulu is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $78,939,472 is the HI key only. Remainder outside 2010 is $78,774,157.

What the 2010 cycle tag actually is

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 173 Honolulu, HI lines in that window produced $165,315. National 2010 activity — every city — lives on the 2010 election cycle hub, not here.

Hawaii campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Honolulu. Do not add $165,315 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle joins.

What $165,315 does not measure

$165,315 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city HONOLULU. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Hawaii file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Honolulu can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered.

A donor who typed HONOLULU is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Honolulu. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place. Treat 173 as lines that stored this string in 2010. FEC receipts are not USAspending awards.

Using Honolulu and 2010 without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $165,315 beside $78,939,472 does not mean 2010 caused the city book or that Honolulu drove the 2010 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. Internal links go to Honolulu, HI, the 2010 election cycle, Hawaii campaign finance, and All FEC ties. If a live hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

173 is a receipt count for Honolulu, HI in 2010, a mid-size itemized file. A household that gave on two dates is two lines. An office or joint-fundraising address stored as HONOLULU sits in the same city field as a residential street. LobbyVault does not convert that field into a Census residency test. Unique-person counts are not in the facts and are not estimated from 173. Mean size of about $956 is $165,315 divided by 173, an arithmetic ratio, not a median donor.

Questions

What is the Honolulu and 2010 join on LobbyVault?: It is the overlap of contributor city HONOLULU with state HI and election cycle 2010: $165,315 on 173 itemized receipts. The Honolulu, HI hub still mixes other cycles ($78,939,472 citywide). The 2010 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.
Does $165,315 include unitemized Honolulu gifts?: No. $165,315 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city HONOLULU in cycle 2010. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $78,939,472 is also an itemized aggregate.
Is $956 a typical Honolulu donor in 2010?: No. $956 is $165,315 divided by 173 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Honolulu, HI.
Where should I read Honolulu without a 2010 filter?: Open the Honolulu, HI city hub for the $78,939,472 all-cycle book. Open the 2010 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open Hawaii campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.