Publisher political money — 2010 cycle

The occupation-and-cycle join for Publisher

Headline number: $518,048. Contribution count: 440. Donor keys: 228. Occupation total: $8,639,602. Remainder outside 2010: $8,121,554. Share of the occupation roll: 6.0%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Publisher in 2010 is not Publisher in every year and is not 2010 for every occupation. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. 228 donor keys and $518,048 exist only at the intersection. An occupation string does not mean the money funded federal contracts, and it does not mean the title caused the gifts.

PUBLISHER is the occupation string. Editor and Owner are other keys. Book versus magazine versus digital imprint is unpublished. FEC.gov stores cycle 2010 as a midterm even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Publisher against other titles. Independent expenditures are omitted. USAspending awards are a different statute.

Reading the Publisher occupation denominator

$8,639,602 is the Publisher occupation book in this extract — every cycle harvested for this string. 2010 contributes $518,048 (6.0%). The packet does not split the occupation total by party, and this page does not invent that split.

Publisher pages still include other years. The 2010 hub still includes other occupations. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Publisher and 2010. Occupation is the string on the receipt, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics code and not a license class.

What 228 Publisher donors represent

228 is a donor-record count. $518,048 is a dollar sum. $2,272 is their ratio. None of those is a unique-person census of the occupation. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $518,048: independent expenditures, non-individual PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables below the itemization threshold, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the occupation comparison: any occupation other than PUBLISHER, except as context that sibling strings exist.

Publisher’s share of its own occupation roll

6.0% of $8,639,602 is a defined slice. Other cycles hold $8,121,554. Put another way, about 6.0% of Publisher-coded itemized dollars in this aggregate were tagged cycle 2010, and the rest were not. Those percentages are $518,048 divided by $8,639,602 and $8,121,554 divided by $8,639,602. They are not shares of licensed workers, eligible voters, or USAspending.

Dollar share (6.0%) and donor volume (228 keys) are separate facts. This page does not publish a donor-count percentage as a substitute for the dollar share. Do not treat 6.0% as Publisher donors’ share of national itemized giving. Cycle-wide occupation mixes live on the cycle hub.

Using Publisher and 2010 links without mixing statutes

Citation template: occupation Publisher (PUBLISHER), election cycle 2010 (midterm), $518,048 in itemized individual contributions from 440 receipts and 228 donors, occupation total $8,639,602, share 6.0%, remainder $8,121,554, mean about $1,177 per gift and $2,272 per donor. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault occupation-cycle aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2010 election cycle page, the Publisher donations hub, all occupations, and all FEC ties. If you need named donors, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays aggregated. No donor names are supplied, and none are added.

Publisher next to other 2010 occupation strings

Other occupation strings in 2010 live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $518,048. Editor, Media Executive, Owner, and Publishing are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-year cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 228 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Publisher, cycle 2010, $518,048 itemized, 440 contributions, 228 donors, 6.0% of $8,639,602. PUBLISHER is the occupation string. Editor and Owner are other keys. Book versus magazine versus digital imprint is unpublished. Editor, Media Executive, Owner, and Publishing stay on other occupation pages. The 2010 election cycle hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $518,048: treat it as payroll, treat 228 as a workforce census, treat 6.0% as a share of 2010 national receipts, or treat the cell as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links. Mean about $1,177 per contribution and $2,272 per donor remain attached to 440 and 228. About 1.9 lines per donor remains 440 divided by 228.

Questions

How many Publisher donors are in the 2010 cell?

228 donor keys sum to $518,048 on 440 contributions. That count is donor keys, not unique licensed workers. The arithmetic mean is about $2,272 per donor and $1,177 per contribution. Independent expenditures are not included. Named donors are not in these facts and are not invented here.

Is $8,639,602 the amount Publisher filers gave in 2010?

No. $8,639,602 is the occupation total across harvested cycles. Publisher’s 2010 cell is $518,048. Other cycles hold $8,121,554. Use the occupation hub for the all-cycle figure and this tie page for the 2010 slice only.

Why does this page exist if occupation and cycle hubs already exist?

Because two tables meet. The occupation hub answers Publisher across years ($8,639,602). The cycle hub answers 2010 across occupations. This tie answers only Publisher inside 2010: $518,048, 440 gifts, 228 donors. All FEC ties lists other such pairs.

What is omitted from $518,048?

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers as a separate table, USAspending awards, and receipts whose occupation string was not PUBLISHER. Sibling titles such as Editor, Media Executive, Owner, and Publishing are other rows. Source: FEC.gov occupation-cycle aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Cycle 2010 is a midterm FEC window.