Political Consultant and the 2012 FEC cycle

Political Consultant as stored text, 2012 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — POLITICAL CONSULTANT and 2012 — sum to $283,205. 343 itemized contributions and 72 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the Political Consultant hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Political Consultant is self-reported occupation, not a verified payroll file. 72 donors and 343 lines in 2012 matched that stored string. People who typed a neighboring spelling sit in other buckets. Named affiliates and related titles are other keys. This page is the exact string POLITICAL CONSULTANT.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $4,327,768 (all cycles for this string) as the 2012 story, and does not treat the 2012 cycle hub as a Political Consultant-only list. Two filters, one cell: $283,205.

6.5% of the Political Consultant roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,327,768. The 2012 slice of $283,205 is about 6.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.5% ($4,044,563). Treating 2012 as the entire Political Consultant FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $4,327,768 as the denominator for the 6.5% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2012 from being folded silently into $4,327,768. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

343 contributions from 72 donors

Dividing $283,205 by 343 contributions yields about $826 per itemized gift. Dividing by 72 donors yields about $3,933 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. FEC.gov itemized individual receipts are the universe.

72 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Political Consultant is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the occupation filter and Political Consultant to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $283,205 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 343 contributions, the 72 unique donors, and the 6.5% share of $4,327,768.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $283,205. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is self-reported occupation, not a campaign-vendor PAC, a consulting NAICS rollup, or Consultant stored as a shorter key.

Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 72 donors, and 343 contributions. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Citing Political Consultant and 2012 together

Start with $283,205, then Political Consultant 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: POLITICAL CONSULTANT, 2012, $283,205, 343 contributions, 72 donors, 6.5% of $4,327,768, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 6.5% share, the 72-donor count, and the $826 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 343 itemized contributions totaling $283,205 average about $826 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did Political Consultant donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $283,205 in itemized individual contributions for the Political Consultant grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 343 contributions and 72 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,327,768 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Political Consultant FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,327,768. The 2012 cell of $283,205 is about 6.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.5% ($4,044,563) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Is Political Consultant a registered-lobbyist census?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string POLITICAL CONSULTANT. The FEC does not verify licenses, job titles, or professional status. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2012 only, totaling $283,205 from 72 donors across 343 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Political Consultant 2012 join?

Open Political Consultant 2012 for the cycle overlay, Political Consultant for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this occupation filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Cite FEC.gov for $283,205, 343 contributions, and 72 donors.