Allentown, PA political money — 2012 cycle

How 2012 sits inside Allentown, PA

Start with the intersection: $193,613 from 50 itemized rows where city = ALLENTOWN (PA) and cycle = 2012. The city dimension without the year is $18,451,312. 1.05% of that stack is 2012; 99.0% ($18,257,699) is not. A minority slice of the city stack of Allentown's own dollars.

The Allentown, PA hub still folds in other even-year windows. The 2012 hub still folds in other cities. This ties slug keeps both. Matching a city string to a cycle tag does not prove intent, ideology, or a Pennsylvania recipient committee.

2012 is filed as a presidential two-year FEC cycle that contains a presidential general. The cycle type does not explain $193,613. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What $18,451,312 includes

$18,451,312 is every cycle under Allentown, PA in this extract, including $193,613 from 2012 and $18,257,699 from the rest. It is not a headcount. Pennsylvania pages still show cities besides Allentown.

The stored city is Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley. Bethlehem, Easton, and Philadelphia are not rolled into ALLENTOWN. State PA keeps this Allentown from Allentown in another state. Keep PA on the key so $18,451,312 is not mixed with a homonym. Stack $18,451,312 and slice $193,613 (1.05%) are different facts. City hub for the unfiltered city; this page for Allentown in 2012. Recipients need not be in Allentown or in Pennsylvania.

FEC cycle 2012 with a Allentown filter

A federal cycle is two years. 2012 is the tag, not a January-only sample. Allentown, PA in that window: $193,613, 50 records, about $3,872 per record. The mean is dollars divided by rows. No median. No unique-donor count.

National 2012 coverage still lists other cities; Pennsylvania coverage still lists other years. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are other tables. 50 itemized rows is a small absolute count of receipts for this join. Linked city, cycle, state, and ties pages hold the broader views.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $193,613 is the 2012 cell for Allentown, PA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 50 records. $18,451,312 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $18,257,699 in other even-year windows. Citing $18,451,312 as a 2012 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $193,613 as the lifetime Allentown total mixes the join into the city hub. 50 is cycleContributions for 2012 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 50 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 1.05% is dollars only — $193,613 divided by $18,451,312 — not a share of Pennsylvania 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 $193,613 or $18,451,312. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

2012 versus other Allentown cycles

1.05% = $193,613 / $18,451,312; 99.0% = $18,257,699 / $18,451,312. About 1.05% of Allentown, PA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate carry cycle 2012; about 99.0% do not. Those percentages are not shares of Pennsylvania, the national 2012 cycle, or eligible voters.

Dollar share 1.05% and row count 50 are not interchangeable. The packet has no all-cycle row total, so a row percentage is not computed. 1.05% is not Allentown's share of nationwide 2012 itemized receipts.

Arithmetic mean and missing medians

50 itemized contributions totaling $193,613 is the cell. Repeat gifts and ALLENTOWN spelling variants can occur. Unique people are not counted. Allentown is not ranked against other Pennsylvania cities.

$3,872 uses $193,613 and 50 only. Occupation and committee joins are separate. The $193,613 is not listed by recipient. Other city strings in the same metro are other pages.

Source limits and adjacent pages

No ranking of Allentown, no wave label for 2012, no proxy for Pennsylvania opinion. Contributor city is not campaign city. A PA receipt does not mean the money supported a Pennsylvania candidate. Amendments can change $193,613 or $18,451,312. Prefer live hubs if they disagree.

Not in this file: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, federal spending awards. See Allentown, PA; 2012 election cycle; Pennsylvania campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the 2012 itemized total from Allentown, PA?

$193,613 in FEC itemized individual contributions, 50 records. The all-cycle city figure is $18,451,312, so 2012 is 1.05% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov.

Is $18,451,312 the amount Allentown gave in 2012?

No. $18,451,312 covers every cycle for ALLENTOWN in PA. 2012 is $193,613 (50 gifts). Other cycles hold $18,257,699. Use the city hub for the stack and this page for 2012.

Did 2012 gifts from Allentown go to Pennsylvania campaigns only?

The facts do not allocate recipients. Donor city is Allentown, PA. Committees can be anywhere the FEC files. $193,613 is not split by office, party, or committee state.

How should readers treat the 50 contribution count?

As 50 itemized rows summing to $193,613, about $3,872 per row. Not unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. No unique-person total is in the packet.