Principal political money in the 2012 election cycle

Principal meeting the 2012 election cycle

2012 is a presidential federal cycle on the FEC calendar. Intersecting the Principal occupation grouping with that year produces $4,397,377, 3,941 lines, and 1,930 donor keys. Those three figures are the join. The occupation hub still holds $43,606,592 across all cycles in the aggregate. This page does not restate that hub without the year filter.

About $2,278 per donor ($4,397,377 ÷ 1,930) and about $1,116 per contribution ($4,397,377 ÷ 3,941) describe this string in 2012. Lines per donor average about 2.0 (3,941 ÷ 1,930). Those ratios are arithmetic on the packet, not typical gifts and not a unique-person audit. Repeat givers raise the line count.

The 2012 election-cycle hub places Principal beside other occupation keys that year. Neither that hub nor this tie converts $4,397,377 into a civic-engagement score. Named employers who share a workplace with people in this cell sit in industry rows if the legal name was used instead of the occupation word.

10.1% of the Principal all-cycle grouping

10.1% is $4,397,377 divided by $43,606,592. The leftover $39,209,215 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. A 10.1% year share is a piece of this grouping’s recorded history, not a ranked list of peak years — other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that residual.

Presidential solicitation volume can lift itemized counts. 3,941 lines still describe only receipts tagged Principal in 2012. The packet does not publish committee names inside the cell; those live on the occupation and cycle overlays. Do not treat 10.1% as proof that 2012 was this occupation’s largest year in every dataset.

Principal can mean school leader or firm partner

PRINCIPAL is an ambiguous occupation word. School principals and investment-firm principals can share the cell if they typed the same string. FEC.gov does not split them. TEACHER, PARTNER, and a school-district or firm legal name are neighboring keys.

A principal who typed the school or firm name without the title is usually on an industry hub. A person who typed Principal is in this cell. This page does not recode K-12 versus finance. The Principal string is the filter.

What Principal money in this cycle is not

The cell is not a school-board PAC, not a private-equity PAC, and not independent expenditures about education or finance bills. Federal education grants are USAspending objects.

This join does not claim that Principal-coded gifts funded those awards. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Motive is outside the packet. Keep Principal and the cycle year named together so a school hub is not assumed.

Pages that keep Principal and 2012 apart

The Principal occupation page holds $43,606,592 and other years. The 2012 election-cycle page holds that year’s occupation list. All occupations ranks neighboring job strings. All FEC ties lists other occupation–cycle pages so this cell is not mistaken for an industry–PAC join.

Keep both sides of the name — Principal and 2012 — whenever $4,397,377 is quoted. Cite 3,941 contributions, 1,930 donors, 10.1% of $43,606,592, and FEC.gov. Do not convert 1,930 keys into licensed or enrolled people. Do not fold USAspending into the cell.

How to cite Principal × 2012

A complete claim names Principal and 2012, then $4,397,377, 3,941 contributions, 1,930 donors, and 10.1% of $43,606,592, source FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts stay omitted. Independent expenditures stay omitted. Federal awards that mention a similar profession stay omitted.

The 1,930-donor count is the net of filing choices in 2012: people who typed Principal increased the cell; people who typed a firm name or a neighboring title reduced it. $4,397,377 and the 10.1% share travel with that net. They do not travel with a licensing board, a union roster, or a USAspending file. Quote the occupation hub for $43,606,592 and other cycles.

2012 remains a presidential federal cycle. That calendar fact does not add dollars. The join stops at itemized individual receipts tagged Principal in 2012: $4,397,377 on 3,941 lines from 1,930 donors. About $1,116 per line and $2,278 per donor are means, not typical gifts. Repeat filers can sit in the 3,941 without raising unique people above 1,930.

Committee-level rows inside the Principal cell are on the occupation and cycle tables, not restated here. Quote both sides of the join so a neighboring title string is not treated as this URL.

Questions

How much did Principal-tagged donors give in 2012?

The join records $4,397,377 in itemized individual contributions for Principal in 2012, from 3,941 contributions and 1,930 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $43,606,592.

What share of the Principal grouping is 2012?

10.1%: $4,397,377 of $43,606,592. Other years’ amounts are not listed in this packet except as the leftover $39,209,215 on the occupation hub. A year share is not a ranking of peak cycles.

Does this include people who listed a company instead of Principal?

Usually not. Named firms are other industry keys. Neighboring titles are other occupation keys. This cell is the grouped Principal string in 2012. Mixing keys would blur the 1,930-donor count.

Do Principal donations fund federal awards?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending obligations are different datasets. This tie reports only itemized individual receipts tagged Principal in 2012: $4,397,377 across 3,941 contributions from 1,930 donors.