Cambridge, MA political money — 2010 cycle

Cambridge, MA political money in 2010

The join keeps donor city Cambridge in Massachusetts and election cycle 2010. The match is $321,289 across 267 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $147,227,540. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.22% of Cambridge, MA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $146,906,251 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Cambridge, MA. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under CAMBRIDGE. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Cambridge, MA with every other donor city in the United States. The 267 rows and $321,289 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Cambridge, MA here is the string that survived aggregation as CAMBRIDGE in MA. 2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window without a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Cambridge, MA donors itemized $321,289. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Cambridge, MA side of the join

The city aggregate for Cambridge, MA is $147,227,540 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $321,289 from 2010 and the $146,906,251 from every other cycle in the same city file. Massachusetts campaign-finance pages still mix Cambridge with every other city in Massachusetts.

The stored city sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. Boston, Somerville, and Brookline are not rolled into CAMBRIDGE. State MA stays on the citation so Cambridge, MA is not merged with Cambridge in another state. $147,227,540 is the MA key only. A large city total does not mean 2010 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2010 was small. For Cambridge, MA, the city stack is $147,227,540 while this cycle is $321,289 (0.22%). Use the city hub to see Cambridge, MA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Cambridge in 2010. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for Massachusetts filers in Cambridge

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Cambridge, MA donors itemized $321,289 on 267 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,203 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Massachusetts still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Cambridge × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 267 itemized rows is a moderate file. Adjacent pages for Cambridge, MA, 2010 election cycle, and Massachusetts campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2010 versus the rest of Cambridge

0.22% of $147,227,540 is a very small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $146,906,251. Put another way, about 0.22% of Cambridge, MA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $321,289 divided by $147,227,540 and $146,906,251 divided by $147,227,540. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.22%) and row volume (267 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A very small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.22% as Cambridge's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

267 itemized contributions totaling $321,289 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 CAMBRIDGE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Cambridge versus other Massachusetts cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,203 uses only the two numbers in the join: $321,289 and 267 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 $321,289 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed CAMBRIDGE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Cambridge.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Cambridge against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Massachusetts. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A MA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Massachusetts candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Cambridge, MA hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Cambridge, MA, the 2010 election cycle, Massachusetts campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 Cambridge, MA donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Cambridge, MA total $321,289 in the 2010 cycle, across 267 contribution records. The same city label totals $147,227,540 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.22% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Cambridge, MA city total only for 2010?

No. The city aggregate of $147,227,540 covers every cycle in the table for CAMBRIDGE. The 2010 filter is $321,289 from 267 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $146,906,251. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Did Cambridge, MA 2010 donations stay in Massachusetts?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Cambridge, MA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $321,289 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Massachusetts races.

How many Cambridge, MA contributions were itemized in 2010?

267 itemized contribution records sum to $321,289. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,203 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.