Princeton, NJ political money — 2012 cycle

Joining Princeton, NJ to the 2012 cycle

$211,856 is the match: PRINCETON + NJ + 2012, 161 itemized rows. $75,711,028 is the city without a year filter. 0.28% of the city stack sits in 2012; 99.7% ($75,499,172) sits elsewhere. That is a modest slice of the city stack for this pair. The percentage uses only $211,856 and $75,711,028.

Do not substitute the Princeton, NJ hub or the 2012 cycle hub for this URL. The hub for the city blends cycles; the hub for the cycle blends cities. Only the intersection carries 161 rows and $211,856. A join is not a causal story. It does not identify recipients as local to New Jersey and does not explain why the gifts were made.

Receipt city is whatever the filer typed. The 2012 tag is presidential (presidential general inside the window). Calendar type is not an explanation of $211,856. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city table for PRINCETON

Stack every cycle for Princeton, NJ and the packet reports $75,711,028. 2012 contributes $211,856; the complement is $75,499,172. That stack is itemized individual money on this city string, not a count of Princeton residents and not a unique-donor census. New Jersey pages still include cities other than Princeton.

The stored city is Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton Junction, West Windsor, and other Mercer County labels are not rolled into PRINCETON. State NJ keeps this Princeton from a same-named city in another state. $75,711,028 belongs to the NJ key. City size and cycle size are independent facts: $75,711,028 citywide, $211,856 in 2012 (0.28%). The city hub drops the year; this tie keeps both filters. Money received by committees is not constrained to Princeton or to New Jersey.

2012 as an FEC two-year cycle

FEC cycles last two years. 2012 on a receipt is that window, not a single tax year. Inside it, Princeton, NJ itemized $211,856 on 161 records, a mean of about $1,316. The mean is $211,856 ÷ 161 rows. Median and unique-donor counts are absent from the packet and are omitted.

National 2012 pages still list other cities. New Jersey pages still list other cycles. This join is Princeton × 2012 only. Unitemized amounts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are out of scope. 161 itemized rows is a sizable absolute count of receipts for this join. Use the linked city, cycle, state, and ties indexes for the adjacent tables.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $211,856 is the 2012 cell for Princeton, NJ: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 161 records. $75,711,028 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $75,499,172 in other even-year windows. Citing $75,711,028 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $211,856 as the lifetime Princeton total mixes the join into the city hub. 161 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 161 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.28% is dollars only — $211,856 divided by $75,711,028 — not a share of New Jersey and not a share of the national 2012 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $211,856 or $75,711,028. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Other cycles versus 2012 in Princeton

0.28% equals $211,856 / $75,711,028. 99.7% equals $75,499,172 / $75,711,028. About 0.28% of Princeton, NJ itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were tagged 2012; about 99.7% were not. Those shares are not state shares, not national-cycle shares, and not voter shares.

Keep dollar share and row count apart: 0.28% versus 161 gifts. No all-cycle row total is in the packet, so a row share is not stated. 0.28% is not Princeton's slice of the nationwide 2012 cycle; that nationwide total is not a fact here.

What {n} rows can and cannot mean

161 × itemized receipts = $211,856 for this definition. Households can appear more than once. Spellings of PRINCETON can fragment or duplicate. Unique people are not counted. Princeton is not ranked against other New Jersey places on this page.

About $1,316 per row is an arithmetic mean only. Occupation and industry joins are elsewhere. The $211,856 is not broken out by committee. If the city field was not PRINCETON, the gift is outside this cell even if the donor lived nearby.

Limits of a geographic-cycle match

The page does not rank cities, does not label 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized receipts as New Jersey opinion. Contributor city ≠ campaign city. A NJ address does not equal a New Jersey candidate. Amendments can revise either aggregate. Prefer a newer FEC extract if hubs disagree.

Left out: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, USAspending awards. See Princeton, NJ; 2012 election cycle; New Jersey campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Princeton donors itemize in 2012?

$211,856 from 161 itemized individual contribution records listing Princeton, NJ. The all-cycle city total is $75,711,028, so 2012 is 0.28% of that stack. FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates are the source.

Is $75,711,028 the 2012 figure for Princeton, NJ?

No. $75,711,028 is all cycles for PRINCETON. 2012 is $211,856 on 161 gifts; other cycles are $75,499,172. Use the city hub for the stack and this ties URL for the 2012 cut.

Did 2012 money from Princeton fund only New Jersey races?

Unknown from these facts. Donor city is Princeton, NJ. Recipients may be anywhere in the FEC system. $211,856 is not split by office, party, or committee state on this page.

What does 161 contributions mean for Princeton in 2012?

It means 161 itemized rows totaling $211,856, about $1,316 each as an arithmetic mean. It does not mean 161 unique people. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. No unique-donor census is in the packet.