Rancher political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

Rancher receipts isolated to 2012

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation RANCHER and the 2012 election cycle. The intersection is $2,241,707 ($2.2 million), 1,991 contributions, and 961 donors. 13.1% of Rancher occupation dollars ($17,057,096) fall in 2012.

The 2012 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a presidential-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add 2010 or 2014 dollars into the 2012 total. RANCHER is the occupation string. FARMER is a different key. The join does not map donors to FSA farm numbers or acreage. Agriculture PACs are committee activity, not this occupation-cycle filter.

$17,057,096 is the Rancher all-cycle total

On the occupation side, $17,057,096 is the Rancher total across cycles. Sibling labels (FARMER, CATTLEMAN, and AGRICULTURE) stay on other pages. Rancher is not a USDA farm-operator census, a livestock PAC, or a merge with FARMER.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $17,057,096. The Rancher donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $2,241,707 is a slice of.

2012 cycle dollars versus the Rancher occupation total

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Rancher. $2,241,707 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

1,991 contributions from 961 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,241,707, 1,991, and 961 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,241,707. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,241,707. Three numbers define the Rancher × 2012 cell: dollars $2,241,707, contribution rows 1,991, unique donors 961. Share of occupation dollars is 13.1% of $17,057,096.

Public-record limits for Rancher in 2012

Matching Rancher with 2012 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Rancher donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a USDA farm-operator census, a livestock PAC, or a merge with FARMER.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. RANCHER is the occupation string. FARMER is a different key. The join does not map donors to FSA farm numbers or acreage. Agriculture PACs are committee activity, not this occupation-cycle filter. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Rancher donations hub is $17,057,096; the 2012 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Rancher and 2012 pages

Rancher donations holds the $17,057,096 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Rancher. All occupations places RANCHER beside other titles without merging sibling strings (FARMER, CATTLEMAN, and AGRICULTURE). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,241,707 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Rancher dollars ($17,057,096). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,241,707, 1,991 contributions, 961 donors, 13.1% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Rancher donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep RANCHER as the occupation key and 2012 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,241,707.

Rancher 2012 versus other LobbyVault cuts

Occupation-by-state joins for Rancher are different pages and different dollars. This tie is occupation-by-cycle. $2,241,707 is not a state total and not a committee total.

All FEC ties is the inventory for those other pairs. All occupations is the inventory for titles. Neither page should be summed into $2,241,707. Sibling strings (FARMER, CATTLEMAN, and AGRICULTURE) remain outside $2,241,707. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,241,707.

Questions

How much did Rancher donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation RANCHER in the 2012 cycle total $2,241,707, from 1,991 contributions and 961 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Rancher-coded receipts are $17,057,096. 2012 is 13.1% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Rancher 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,241,707 or in the $17,057,096 occupation figure used here. RANCHER and FARMER are separate filer-entered strings. This join uses only RANCHER. The 2012 join is $2,241,707 from 1,991 contributions and 961 donors.

Is Rancher the same as Farmer?

No. RANCHER and FARMER are separate filer-entered strings. This join uses only RANCHER. The 2012 cycle filter on Rancher is $2,241,707, 1,991 contributions, and 961 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $17,057,096. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 1,991 Rancher contributions and 961 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 1,991 itemized contributions from 961 donors totaling $2,241,707. 1,991 contributions from 961 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.