Missouri campaign finance next to federal obligations

Missouri’s two ledgers share a postal code

MO joins FEC.gov candidate receipts ($56.0 million, 1,122 committees) to USAspending.gov obligations ($347,862,906,929, 602,924 awards). A St. Louis contribution does not post as a Kansas City obligation because both strings say Missouri.

602,924 award actions is a high row count relative to several states with similar obligation totals. Pair the count with $347,862,906,929 every time. A bare row count sounds like a pile of deals the file never defined.

Missouri campaign finance, Missouri USAspending, and All FEC ties are the three allowed doors. Geography is the join. Cashflow is not.

Bi-state MSA talk will try to pull Kansas into Missouri’s $347,862,906,929. Resist it. Kansas is a different tie. This packet’s 602,924 awards and $56.0 million receipts are Missouri-coded only.

A close FEC party split on a mid-size book

Democratic committees reported $28.8 million (51.5%). Republican committees reported $26.8 million (47.9%). Other filers reported $0.4 million (0.7%). 1,122 committees include residual filers. Sort Missouri campaign finance by receipts rather than treating the roster as a ballot.

Jefferson City state campaigns file with the state, outside $56.0 million. Super PAC ads about Missouri candidates can be financed from elsewhere and sit outside this candidate-receipt total.

Agricultural and aviation folklore belongs on Missouri USAspending when those recipient types appear. It does not belong in a sentence that treats 51.5% Democratic receipts as an award overlay.

Missouri obligations as an award extract

$347,862,906,929 covers award obligations coded to Missouri. 602,924 is an action count, not unique vendors. Agriculture, health, and defense instruments can share that count. This packet does not publish an agency mix. Open Missouri USAspending for those cuts.

Do not compute a mean award. Do not divide $347,862,906,929 by 1,122 committees. Candidate committees are not award recipients in this join.

Quote Missouri campaign finance for the live FEC roster of 1,122 committees and $56.0 million in receipts. Quote Missouri USAspending for $347,862,906,929 and 602,924 awards. All FEC ties keeps MO in a series of geographic joins. None of those pages adds receipts to obligations or assigns FEC party codes to awards.

What Missouri’s join refuses

A combined Missouri federal-money sum. A partisan coloring of 602,924 awards using 51.5% and 47.9%. A claim that $56.0 million funded $347,862,906,929. Correlation of statewide size is not causation.

Independent expenditures mentioning Missouri candidates can be paid from out-of-state committees. Those dollars sit outside both packet totals. Ads are FEC schedules. Awards are USAspending rows.

Missouri’s 1,122 committees and 602,924 awards answer different questions. Keep $56.0 million on the FEC.gov sentence and $347,862,906,929 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.

Two cities, one statewide roll-up

St. Louis and Kansas City share MO with the rest of the state. This packet does not split $56.0 million or $347,862,906,929 by metro. 1,122 committees and 602,924 awards stay statewide. A bi-state MSA story that pulls in Kansas would mix this join with another state’s extract.

The Kansas tie is a different page. Do not add Missouri’s $347,862,906,929 to Kansas obligations and call the result a metro total. This packet has no metro key.

Amended candidate reports move $56.0 million. Award restatements move $347,862,906,929. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Missouri campaign finance and Missouri USAspending are the live tables; this prose is a packet snapshot for MO.

Missouri citation

FEC.gov: $56.0 million; 1,122 committees; Democratic $28.8 million; Republican $26.8 million; other $0.4 million. USAspending.gov: $347,862,906,929; 602,924 awards. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Do not rank Missouri as more influential because $56.0 million sits beside $347,862,906,929. Influence is not a field in this packet. The join is MO geography only.

Questions

Are Missouri campaign donations the same as federal spending in Missouri?

No. $56.0 million is FEC candidate receipts from 1,122 committees. $347,862,906,929 is USAspending obligations from 602,924 awards. A shared MO code is not a payment trail. Filings remain on FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

How close is Missouri’s FEC party split?

Democratic committees reported $28.8 million (51.5%) and Republican committees reported $26.8 million (47.9%) of $56.0 million. Other filers reported $0.4 million. The split covers candidate committees, not award recipients. LobbyVault joins the MO extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Why does Missouri show 602,924 awards next to 1,122 committees?

602,924 is a USAspending action count. 1,122 is an FEC committee count. Unlike inventories. A larger award-row count does not mean $56.0 million created more awards. Pair 602,924 with $347,862,906,929 when you quote it.

Where are Missouri’s hubs?

Missouri campaign finance on LobbyVault, Missouri USAspending on SpendingVault, All FEC ties for other joins. Later bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add the two dollar totals together. LobbyVault joins the MO extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.