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Publisher political contributions from Oregon

Donors who listed their occupation as Publisher and their state as Oregon account for $585,759 in FEC itemized individual contributions. That Oregon slice covers 1,526 contributions from 20 donors. Nationwide, the Publisher occupation grouping totals $8,639,602 across 27,621 contributions and 1,327 donors. This page joins those two FEC fields. It does not name newspapers, houses, or the committees that received the money.

Key figures

  • Oregon Publisher-coded donors account for $585,759, 1,526 contributions, and 20 donors.
  • The national Publisher total is $8,639,602 from 1,327 donors and 27,621 contributions—about 6.8% of those dollars and about 1.5% of those donors are in this Oregon join.
  • PUBLISHER is a filer-entered string, not a medium or employer code.
  • An OR donor-state code does not mean the funds supported Oregon committees.

Twenty Oregon donors inside the Publisher label

The join retains occupation PUBLISHER and donor state OR. The retained set is $585,759, 1,526 contributions, and 20 donors. The occupation nationwide is $8,639,602, 27,621 contributions, and 1,327 donors. Oregon holds about 6.8% of Publisher-coded dollars, about 5.5% of Publisher-coded contribution rows, and about 1.5% of Publisher-coded donors.

About 1.5% of the people and about 6.8% of the dollars: Oregon’s Publisher join is headcount-thin and dollar-thicker. Twenty identities produced 1,526 itemized lines. A national Publisher list of 1,327 donors would not highlight that. An Oregon state list would not isolate PUBLISHER from every other title.

Twenty Oregon donors and 1,526 contribution rows produced $585,759 under PUBLISHER. The occupation side is $8,639,602, 27,621 contributions, and 1,327 donors. About 6.8% of dollars from about 1.5% of donors is a thin identity set on a thicker dollar slice. PUBLISHER does not encode medium. The 1,526 Oregon rows are itemized individual lines attached to 20 contributor keys, not a census of Oregon publishing houses.

PUBLISHER as a national occupation string

PUBLISHER can mean book publishing, newspapers, magazines, or software publishing; the FEC occupation field does not say which. EDITOR, JOURNALIST, and WRITER are other pages. The national totals—$8,639,602 from 1,327 donors and 27,621 contributions—are the labeled receipts.

Twenty-seven thousand six hundred twenty-one contribution rows from 1,327 donors imply repeat itemized giving in the national file. Oregon’s 1,526 rows from 20 donors concentrate a noticeable line count on a small identity set.

Oregon’s donor-state filter

Twenty Oregon donors produced 1,526 contributions totaling $585,759. Other Oregon occupations are outside this join. Publisher receipts from other states fill the remainder of $8,639,602.

OR is the contributor state. It does not prove an Oregon publishing company or an Oregon federal recipient. The $585,759 is not allocated to Senate, House, presidential, or PAC committees on this page.

Oregon’s 20 Publisher-coded donors and 1,526 contributions sit inside 1,327 national donors and 27,621 national contributions. The $585,759 does not name a medium.

People share versus dollar share

Oregon’s donor share (about 1.5%) lags its dollar share (about 6.8%) and its row share (about 5.5%). The 20 donors are not a representative sample of 1,327 national Publisher-coded identities; they are the entire Oregon-coded set for this string. Representativeness is the wrong frame for a complete filter, not a poll.

Keep the arithmetic inside the packet: $585,759 of $8,639,602, 20 of 1,327 donors, 1,526 of 27,621 contributions.

Twenty identities and 1,526 lines

Oregon’s Publisher join is $585,759 from 20 donors and 1,526 contributions. Nationally PUBLISHER is $8,639,602 from 1,327 donors and 27,621 contributions. About 1.5% of donors, about 5.5% of rows, and about 6.8% of dollars: a thin identity set sitting on a thicker dollar and line slice. Twenty people produced 1,526 itemized rows in this cut.

PUBLISHER does not encode books, newspapers, magazines, or software. EDITOR and JOURNALIST are other strings. The 1,327 national donors are the labeled set, not a directory of publishing houses. Oregon’s 20 donors are the subset also coded OR.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. Donor state OR is not a map of Oregon media companies or Oregon races. See Publisher donations, Oregon campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

What not to conclude

This join does not say Oregon media funds federal campaigns, and it does not rank publishing states. Two self-reported columns overlapped. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. See Publisher donations, Oregon campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Oregon’s 20 donors remain the full identity count on this PUBLISHER plus OR filter; the $585,759 is not a statewide publishing census.

Questions

How much have Publisher donors in Oregon given?
FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Publisher and state Oregon total $585,759. That join includes 1,526 contributions and 20 donors. Nationwide, Publisher-coded receipts are $8,639,602 from 1,327 donors and 27,621 contributions. Occupation labels are filer-entered.
Why only 20 Oregon donors for $585,759?
The state side is 20 donors, 1,526 contributions, and $585,759. That is about 1.5% of 1,327 national Publisher donors but about 6.8% of $8,639,602. The join is concentrated. This page does not name those 20 donors.
Does Publisher mean newspaper publishers?
The field is the string PUBLISHER as entered. It does not encode medium. Nationally the label covers 1,327 donors and $8,639,602. This tie only adds the Oregon state filter Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Oregon races. This join is $585,759 from 20 donors and 1,526 contributions against $8,639,602 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.
Did this money stay in Oregon races?
Not necessarily. Donor state is Oregon. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $585,759 by office Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Oregon races. This join is $585,759 from 20 donors and 1,526 contributions against $8,639,602 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state. Occupation labels are filer-entered.