Southfield, MI political money — 2010 cycle

Why Southfield and 2010 need a third URL

A city hub that mixes every cycle cannot tell a reader what 2010 alone produced. A cycle hub that mixes every city cannot tell a reader what Southfield, MI alone produced. $163,273 is the number that appears only after both filters. 81 is the matching row count — a modest itemized file.

2010 accounts for 0.57% of $28,512,841. Other cycles hold $28,349,568 (99.4%). 2010 is a midterm election cycle. Mean itemized size is about $2,016. Those are packet facts, not a ranking of Southfield against other places.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. The figures are not PAC transfers and not unitemized gifts. They do not assign motive to any contributor.

The Michigan city field

Southfield sits in Oakland County, Michigan. Detroit, Farmington Hills, and Birmingham, MI are other contributor-city keys. $28,512,841 is that string across cycles, state MI only. Same-named cities in other states are out of this book. Michigan campaign finance still includes every other city in the state; do not add $163,273 on top of that roll-up.

Contributor city is not recipient city. Committees can file anywhere. This page does not allocate $163,273 by office or party and does not invent donor names.

Inside the 2010 window

The Commission tags itemized receipts with a two-year cycle. 2010 is that tag, not a single calendar year. National activity for the window lives on the 2010 election cycle hub. Southfield, MI's piece of it, in this extract, is $163,273.

Unitemized gifts sit outside the join. Independent expenditures sit outside the join. Federal award obligations sit outside the join. All FEC ties lists other filters; none of them funds USAspending from FEC receipts.

Filer spelling and metro splits

A donor who typed SOUTHFIELD is in $163,273. A donor who typed a neighborhood, employer city, or adjacent suburb is not silently recoded here. Metro areas routinely split across several city pages. 81 counts lines that stored this string in 2010, not a labor-force census.

2010 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a January-to-December cash diary and not a verdict on Southfield politics. Presidential windows include a presidential general; midterm windows do not. That classification does not explain $163,273. The Commission’s cycle tag on the receipt is the only cycle fact in the packet. Party splits for these 81 lines are not stored here.

Caveats

Amended reports can move $163,273 or $28,512,841. Live hubs win if they disagree with this prose. Correlation is not causation. See Southfield, MI, the 2010 election cycle, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

81 is a receipt count for Southfield, MI in 2010, a modest itemized file. A household that gave on two dates is two lines. An office or joint-fundraising address stored as SOUTHFIELD 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 81. Mean size of about $2,016 is $163,273 divided by 81, an arithmetic ratio, not a median donor.

Share of the city book is 0.57% because $163,273 divided by $28,512,841 equals that percentage. The complement is 99.4% sitting in $28,349,568. Those shares use only this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not Southfield's share of Michigan and not Southfield's share of the national 2010 cycle. Those other denominators are absent from the packet.

Keep MI on the citation. Southfield sits in Oakland County, Michigan. Detroit, Farmington Hills, and Birmingham, MI are other contributor-city keys. A repeated city name under another postal abbreviation is a different FEC key. $28,512,841 is the MI key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system. This join does not allocate $163,273 by office, party, or committee state.

Questions

What is the Southfield and 2010 join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of contributor city SOUTHFIELD with state MI and election cycle 2010: $163,273 on 81 itemized receipts. The Southfield, MI hub still mixes other cycles ($28,512,841 citywide). The 2010 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.

Does $163,273 include unitemized Southfield gifts?

No. $163,273 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city SOUTHFIELD 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 $28,512,841 is also an itemized aggregate.

Is $2,016 a typical Southfield donor in 2010?

No. $2,016 is $163,273 divided by 81 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 Southfield, MI.

Where should I read Southfield without a 2010 filter?

Open the Southfield, MI city hub for the $28,512,841 all-cycle book. Open the 2010 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open Michigan campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.