How much did Omaha, NE donors give in 2012?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city OMAHA and cycle 2012 total $599,390 across 224 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Omaha, NE book of $206.9 million. Unitemized gifts and Nebraska state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $599,390 all of Omaha’s federal political money?

No. $206.9 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city OMAHA in NE. The 2012 slice is $599,390, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Omaha, NE hub. 224 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2012 Omaha total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed OMAHA with state NE. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Omaha can sit in $599,390 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Omaha, NE 2012 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $599,390 and 224 lines for OMAHA in cycle 2012, and $206.9 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

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Omaha, NE political money in the 2012 election cycle

Filers listing Omaha, NE reported $599,390 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 presidential election cycle, across 224 FEC receipts. That dollar figure is the city-and-cycle join, not Omaha’s all-cycle book of $206.9 million and not a national 2012 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Key figures

$599,390 across 224 itemized receipts is the Omaha, NE × 2012 join.
$206.9 million is the all-cycle Omaha, NE city book; 2012 is 0.3% of that book.
Mean near $2,676 is $599,390 ÷ 224, not a median resident.
City OMAHA is filer-entered; 2012 is the FEC cycle tag.
If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

How Omaha meets the 2012 election cycle

$599,390 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city OMAHA with state NE, and election cycle 2012. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Omaha, NE city hub and the 2012 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers “how much itemized money has this city string produced across cycles.” The cycle hub answers “how much itemized money did that two-year federal window produce nationally.” This page answers only the intersection: Omaha, NE in 2012.

224 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored OMAHA is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $2,676 ($599,390 ÷ 224). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $599,390. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $599,390 for the 2012 slice and $206.9 million for the Omaha, NE book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Omaha, NE side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city OMAHA in Nebraska totals $206.9 million. $599,390 is 0.3% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Omaha; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Omaha, NE table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Douglas County, Nebraska. Council Bluffs, Iowa is a different state-and-city key. State NE stays on the citation so Omaha is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $206.9 million is the NE key only.

The 2012 cycle side for Nebraska filers in Omaha

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 224 Omaha, NE lines in that window produced $599,390. National 2012 activity — every city — lives on the 2012 election cycle hub, not here.

Nebraska campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Omaha. Do not add $599,390 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $599,390 into spending by Omaha candidates.

What $599,390 does not measure

$599,390 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city OMAHA. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Nebraska file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Omaha can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed OMAHA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Omaha. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 224 as lines that stored this string in 2012.

Reading Omaha and 2012 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $599,390 beside $206.9 million does not mean 2012 “caused” the city book or that Omaha “drove” the 2012 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Omaha, NE hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Omaha, NE, the 2012 election cycle, Nebraska campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $599,390 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Omaha, NE donors give in 2012?: Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city OMAHA and cycle 2012 total $599,390 across 224 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Omaha, NE book of $206.9 million. Unitemized gifts and Nebraska state-office filings sit outside both figures.
Is $599,390 all of Omaha’s federal political money?: No. $206.9 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city OMAHA in NE. The 2012 slice is $599,390, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Omaha, NE hub. 224 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.
Does the 2012 Omaha total count only residents?: No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed OMAHA with state NE. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Omaha can sit in $599,390 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.
Where do the Omaha, NE 2012 numbers come from?: FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $599,390 and 224 lines for OMAHA in cycle 2012, and $206.9 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.

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