Detroit, MI political money — 2012 cycle

Two dimensions: Detroit, MI and 2012

Two dimensions define this URL: donor city Detroit, MI and election cycle 2012. Where both are true, FEC itemized individual receipts add to $219,527 across 272 lines. The city dimension alone is $78.6 million. The cycle dimension alone is a national file that is not in these facts. Only the overlap is cited here.

Share of the city book: 0.3% ($219,527 ÷ $78,603,491). Remainder in other cycles: $78,383,964 (99.7%). Those percentages use the city total as denominator. They are not Detroit, MI's share of Michigan, not Detroit, MI's share of the national 2012 cycle, and not a turnout rate.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Treat 272 as rows. Treat $219,527 as itemized dollars with this city string and this cycle tag. Do not invent a unique-donor headcount. Do not invent recipient names.

$78,603,491 is the city book, not the cycle slice

City total $78,603,491 is every cycle under DETROIT in MI. Cycle total $219,527 is 2012 only. Contribution count 272 is 2012 only. Missing from the packet: all-cycle row count, unique donors, party, office, and committee identifiers. Those omissions are why this prose does not rank neighborhoods or name recipients.

Wayne County, Michigan is geographic color, not an extra FEC field. The Commission stores the city string the committee keyed. If a filer used a suburb name among Dearborn, Warren, and Grosse Pointe, that money is on another city page. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into DETROIT.

272 receipts in a presidential window

Cycle coding is mechanical. The Commission tags itemized receipts with a two-year even year. 272 DETROIT lines received the 2012 tag in this aggregate and summed to $219,527. National volume for that tag is a different page.

Presidential cycles (2008, 2012) and midterm cycles (2010, 2014) are calendar types, not size ranks. This packet has one cycle: 2012, which is presidential. Adjacent Detroit, MI joins for other years are other URLs.

Donor city is an address field

No donor names are listed because the packet has none. Inventing names would be a fabrication. The 272 lines remain anonymous in this overlay. Committee names are likewise absent from the facts and absent from this prose.

$219,527 does not measure public opinion in Wayne County, Michigan. Itemized filers are a disclosure set, not a sample of residents. Mean $807 is a row average, not a resident average.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city DETROIT, state MI, election cycle 2012, itemized dollars $219,527, itemized rows 272, all-cycle city dollars $78,603,491. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2012 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Wayne County, Michigan against other places.

How to read the two hubs without collapsing them: Detroit, MI still mixes 2012 with every other even-year tag under DETROIT. The 2012 election cycle still mixes Detroit, MI with every other donor city in the United States. Michigan campaign finance still mixes this city with the rest of Michigan. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. $219,527 exists only where city DETROIT and cycle 2012 are both true.

Share math uses only these two dollars

Amended FEC reports can revise itemized totals. This JSON is a snapshot of one extract. Prefer live hub numbers when they differ. The relationship remains the same: city DETROIT × cycle 2012.

Do not convert $219,527 into “support for Michigan candidates.” Recipient geography is not in the facts. Do not convert 272 into “households.” Rows are receipts.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Detroit, MI, filers also use labels such as Dearborn, Warren, and Grosse Pointe; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into DETROIT. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Michigan state-office filings sit outside $219,527 and outside $78,603,491. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

Amended reports and extract vintage

Treat 0.3% as a filing-tag share inside one city key. Treat presidential as a calendar type. Treat Wayne County, Michigan as map color. None of those treatments adds a number that is missing from the packet.

The overlay is complete when a reader can say: Detroit, MI, 2012, $219,527 itemized, 272 lines, city book $78,603,491, source FEC.gov, not USAspending.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $219,527 is 0.3% of $78,603,491; $78,383,964 is the other 99.7%; mean itemized line is about $807 ($219,527 ÷ 272). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Detroit, MI hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Detroit, MI donors give in 2012?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city DETROIT and cycle 2012 total $219,527 across 272 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Detroit, MI book of $78.6 million. Unitemized gifts and Michigan state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $219,527 all of Detroit's federal political money?

No. $78.6 million ($78,603,491) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city DETROIT in MI. The 2012 slice is $219,527, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles hold $78,383,964. 272 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count. The city hub holds the stack; this page holds the year.

Did Detroit, MI 2012 donations stay in Michigan?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Detroit, MI; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $219,527 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MI city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Michigan races.

How many Detroit, MI contributions were itemized in 2012?

272 itemized contribution records sum to $219,527. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $807 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.