Columbus, OH political money — 2010 cycle

Columbus, OH × 2010 isolates the midterm window

$166,529 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city COLUMBUS with state OH, and election cycle 2010. The match is $166,529 across 120 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $135,072,444. 2010 therefore accounts for 0.12% of Columbus, OH itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $134,905,915 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Columbus, OH. That hub mixes 2010 with every other even-year window filed under COLUMBUS. It is also not a restatement of the 2010 election cycle hub, which mixes Columbus, OH with every other donor city in the United States. The 120 rows and $166,529 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

COLUMBUS in 2010 remains a Franklin County key

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city COLUMBUS in Ohio totals $135.1 million ($135,072,444). $166,529 is 0.12% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2010 was quiet in Columbus; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $166,529 to $135,072,444; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $135,072,444 − $166,529 = $134,905,915 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Franklin County, Ohio. Gahanna, Hilliard, and Reynoldsburg are other FEC city strings; they are not folded into COLUMBUS. State OH stays on the citation so Columbus is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $135.1 million is the OH key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

How FEC tags 2010 on Columbus receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2010 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window labeled by its even year, without a presidential general on the ballot. Inside that window, Columbus, OH filers itemized $166,529 on 120 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,388 per itemized gift ($166,529 ÷ 120). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 120-row extract for the 2010 tag — fewer lines than some other Columbus even-year files, still a receipt stack. The national 2010 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Ohio still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Columbus × 2010. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Ohio campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $166,529 into the state hub a second time.

2010 versus other Columbus even-year tags

0.12% of $135,072,444 is the 2010 slice. Put another way, about 0.12% of Columbus, OH’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2010, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $166,529 divided by $135,072,444 and $134,905,915 divided by $135,072,444. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.12%) and row volume (120 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Do not add the 2008 Columbus slice to this 2010 slice and call the sum the city book. Other cycles remain in the all-cycle total. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.12% as Columbus’s share of the 2010 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

120 contribution records are not unique donors

120 itemized contributions totaling $166,529 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of COLUMBUS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Columbus versus other Ohio cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,388 uses only the two numbers in the join: $166,529 and 120 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $166,529 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed COLUMBUS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Columbus.

Limits of the Columbus–2010 join

This page does not rank Columbus against other cities, does not call 2010 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Ohio. Two columns matched. A OH address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Ohio candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Columbus, OH hub or the live 2010 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A midterm label does not assign COLUMBUS receipts to a House race. Committee identity is unpublished on this packet.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Columbus, OH, the 2010 election cycle, Ohio campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. This 2010 page is not the 2008 or 2012 Columbus joins. Each cycle tag is its own URL. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Columbus, OH donors give in the 2010 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Columbus, OH total $166,529 in the 2010 cycle, across 120 contribution records. The same city label totals $135,072,444 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2010 is 0.12% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Columbus’s all-cycle book the same as the 2010 figure?

No. The city aggregate of $135,072,444 covers every cycle in the table for COLUMBUS. The 2010 filter is $166,529 from 120 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $134,905,915. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2010 slice.

Were 2010 Columbus gifts limited to Ohio races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Columbus, OH; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $166,529 by office, state of the committee, or party. A OH city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Ohio races.

How many Columbus, OH contributions were itemized in 2010?

120 itemized contribution records sum to $166,529. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,388 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.