How does 2012 compare with the rest of Springfield giving?

2012 is $161,351, 0.52% of the $31,119,274 Springfield, MO book. Other cycles hold $30,957,923 (99.5%). Those shares use this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not shares of Missouri or of the national 2012 cycle, which are not in these facts.

Are the 64 2012 rows unique Springfield residents?

No. 64 is a receipt count. The same household can appear more than once, and an office or joint-fundraising address stored as SPRINGFIELD can sit beside a home address. LobbyVault does not convert the city field into a Census residency test. Unique-donor counts are not in the packet.

Do these Springfield dollars fund federal awards?

No. $161,351 is FEC itemized individual contributions. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different table. This packet has no award dollars, contractor names, or recipient UEIs. A shared geography does not turn campaign receipts into federal spending.

What source backs the Springfield, MO 2012 figures?

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. This snapshot stores $161,351 and 64 lines for SPRINGFIELD in 2012, plus $31,119,274 for the city string across cycles. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

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Springfield, MO political money — 2012 cycle

Inside Springfield, MO's $31,119,274 all-cycle itemized book, the 2012 window is $161,351 — 0.52% of that city stack, across 64 FEC contribution records. The remainder, $30,957,923, sits in other cycles under the same SPRINGFIELD label. This page is the city-and-cycle join, sourced from FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, not a restatement of either hub.

Key figures

0.52% of Springfield, MO's $31,119,274 itemized book was filed in the 2012 cycle ($161,351).
64 itemized lines average about $2,521 each.
State MO stays on the key so Springfield is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.
Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures sit outside $161,351.

2012's share of the Springfield book

0.52% is $161,351 divided by $31,119,274. 99.5% is $30,957,923 divided by $31,119,274. Those two percentages use only the city aggregate as the denominator. They are not Springfield's share of Missouri itemized giving and not Springfield's share of the national 2012 cycle. Those other denominators are not in this packet and are not invented here.

The join still has a row count: 64 itemized gifts, a modest itemized file. Dollar share and row volume can tell different stories; this file reports both and ranks neither. Mean size is about $2,521 per row. 2012 is a presidential election cycle, which labels the two-year FEC window and does not interpret $161,351.

Two hubs, one intersection for Springfield, MO

Open Springfield, MO for every cycle stored under SPRINGFIELD. Open the 2012 election cycle for every donor city in that window. The 64 rows totaling $161,351 exist only where both filters are true. Treating the city hub as a 2012 page, or the cycle hub as a Springfield page, collapses dimensions the FEC file kept separate.

Springfield sits in Greene County, Missouri. Springfield, Illinois and Springfield, Massachusetts are other state keys; Kansas City is a different Missouri string. Keep state MO on the citation. A repeated city name under another postal code is a different FEC key and is not folded into $31,119,274.

Donor city is the address field on the individual receipt. Committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system. This join does not allocate $161,351 by office, party, or recipient state.

The Missouri context without double-counting

Missouri campaign finance already includes Springfield when the same extract is used. Adding $161,351 on top of a state total counts the same receipts twice. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages; none of them converts donations into USAspending obligations.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and state-office filings sit outside $161,351 and outside $31,119,274. Both published dollars are itemized federal individual contributions.

Rows are not residents

64 is a modest itemized file. Repeat dates, multiple committees, and spelling variants of SPRINGFIELD can add lines without adding people. Unique-person counts are not in the facts. Employer and occupation strings are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break $161,351 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Internal links on this file are Springfield, MO, the 2012 election cycle, Missouri campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four. Do not paste $161,351 into a USAspending award story. FEC individual contributions and federal obligations are collected under different statutes, on different forms, for different filers. This packet has no award dollars and no contractor names.

What the join is not

The page does not rank Springfield as more or less political than other places, and it does not treat itemized dollars as public opinion in Missouri. Amended filings can move $161,351 or $31,119,274. If the live Springfield, MO hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls. Source: FEC.gov.

This page does not rank Springfield against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Missouri. Two columns matched: city SPRINGFIELD and cycle 2012. The product of that match is $161,351 on 64 rows. Public-opinion claims, turnout claims, and wealth claims would require fields this packet does not have.

Filer spelling splits metros. A contributor who typed SPRINGFIELD is inside $161,351. A contributor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Springfield. Springfield sits in Greene County, Missouri. Springfield, Illinois and Springfield, Massachusetts are other state keys; Kansas City is a different Missouri string. Treat 64 as lines that stored this string in 2012, not as a labor-force or voter-file headcount of Springfield, MO.

The live Springfield, MO hub is the place to browse other cycles under the same city label. The live 2012 election cycle hub is the place to browse other cities in the same two-year window. Missouri campaign finance is the state roll-up. All FEC ties is the directory. This snapshot cites $161,351, 64 rows, $31,119,274 citywide, and the derived remainder $30,957,923.

Questions

How does 2012 compare with the rest of Springfield giving?: 2012 is $161,351, 0.52% of the $31,119,274 Springfield, MO book. Other cycles hold $30,957,923 (99.5%). Those shares use this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not shares of Missouri or of the national 2012 cycle, which are not in these facts.
Are the 64 2012 rows unique Springfield residents?: No. 64 is a receipt count. The same household can appear more than once, and an office or joint-fundraising address stored as SPRINGFIELD can sit beside a home address. LobbyVault does not convert the city field into a Census residency test. Unique-donor counts are not in the packet.
Do these Springfield dollars fund federal awards?: No. $161,351 is FEC itemized individual contributions. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different table. This packet has no award dollars, contractor names, or recipient UEIs. A shared geography does not turn campaign receipts into federal spending.
What source backs the Springfield, MO 2012 figures?: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. This snapshot stores $161,351 and 64 lines for SPRINGFIELD in 2012, plus $31,119,274 for the city string across cycles. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

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