Princeton, NJ political money in the 2010 election cycle

How Princeton meets the 2010 election cycle

$252,563 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PRINCETON with state NJ, and election cycle 2010. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Princeton, NJ city hub and the 2010 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Princeton, NJ in 2010.

159 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 PRINCETON is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,588 ($252,563 ÷ 159). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2010 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $252,563. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $252,563 for the 2010 slice and $75.7 million for the Princeton, NJ book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Princeton, NJ side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city PRINCETON in New Jersey totals $75.7 million ($75,711,028). $252,563 is 0.3% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Princeton; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $75,458,465 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Princeton, NJ table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Mercer County, New Jersey. West Windsor and Lawrenceville are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into PRINCETON. State NJ stays on the citation so Princeton is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $75.7 million is the NJ key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2010 cycle side for New Jersey filers in Princeton

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2010 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 159 Princeton, NJ lines in that window produced $252,563. National 2010 activity — every city — lives on the 2010 election cycle hub, not here. A midterm label marks the even-year window that includes a congressional midterm, not a finding about turnout in Princeton.

New Jersey campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Princeton. Do not add $252,563 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 $252,563 into spending by Princeton candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $252,563 and the $75.7 million city book.

What $252,563 does not measure

$252,563 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city PRINCETON. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in New Jersey file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Princeton can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PRINCETON is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Princeton. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 159 as lines that stored this string in 2010. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Princeton and 2010 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $252,563 beside $75.7 million does not mean 2010 caused the city book or that Princeton drove the 2010 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Princeton, NJ hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Princeton, NJ, the 2010 election cycle, New Jersey campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $252,563 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in New Jersey.

A 0.3% cut of the Princeton stack

0.3% of $75.7 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $252,563 of the $75,711,028 city stack was tagged 2010, and $75,458,465 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $252,563 divided by $75,711,028 and $75,458,465 divided by $75,711,028. They are not shares of New Jersey totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.3%) and row volume (159 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.3% as Princeton's share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Princeton × 2010 only: $252,563, 159 receipts, mean about $1,588. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Princeton, NJ donors give in 2010?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city PRINCETON and cycle 2010 total $252,563 across 159 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Princeton, NJ book of $75.7 million. Unitemized gifts and New Jersey state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $252,563 all of Princeton's federal political money?

No. $75.7 million ($75,711,028) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city PRINCETON in NJ. The 2010 slice is $252,563, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles hold $75,458,465. 159 is a 2010 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Princeton, NJ 2010 donations stay in New Jersey?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Princeton, NJ; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $252,563 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NJ city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of New Jersey races.

How many Princeton, NJ contributions were itemized in 2010?

159 itemized contribution records sum to $252,563. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,588 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.