Rancher political contributions from Colorado

The Rancher–Colorado intersection

Occupation RANCHER and donor state CO produce $755,760, 2,910 contributions, and 174 donors. The occupation hub is $17,057,096, 40,878 contributions, and 3,387 donors. Colorado’s dollar share is about 4.4%; contribution share about 7.1% (2,910 of 40,878); donor share about 5.1% (174 of 3,387). One hundred seventy-four Colorado donors sit inside 3,387 national RANCHER donors. Contribution volume (2,910 of 40,878) is a high-frequency slice of a livestock-label occupation.

RANCH OWNER, CATTLEMAN, and FARMER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack RANCHER with RANCH OWNER or FARMER into a single Colorado professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

174 Colorado donors produced 2,910 contributions, about 16.7 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 12.1 rows per donor nationally (40,878 contributions from 3,387 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Colorado cell is about $260, against about $417 nationwide. Colorado’s $755,760 is address-coded itemized money, not a brand-inspection or grazing-permit total. The same occupation string also appears in a New Mexico tie with a different row count.

RANCHER as a livestock occupation string

RANCHER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify livestock inventory, acreage, or a brand registration. The $17,057,096 national total is RANCHER only. 3,387 donors produced 40,878 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 40,878 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Colorado (CO). Forty thousand eight hundred seventy-eight national contributions make RANCHER a mid-volume bucket. This tie locates the Colorado overlap.

Colorado as donor state

174 Colorado donors produced 2,910 contributions totaling $755,760. Donor state CO is the address on the record, not proof of a Colorado license, and not a limit to Colorado candidates. CO is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Colorado ranch, and not a map of which campaigns received the $755,760.

The Colorado campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CO. This join is only RANCHER. The Rancher occupation hub without Colorado still holds about 95.6% of the $17,057,096. Colorado’s state hub includes every occupation coded to CO. RANCHER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Rancher plus Colorado

This page does not count ranches, merge farmer dollars, or claim that Rancher-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. RANCHER is not FARMER and not RANCH OWNER even when one person used both titles.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. RANCHER is not a USDA operator extract. Donor state CO is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Acreage and herd size are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Rancher filter

Subtract the Colorado dollars on this page from the national RANCHER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded RANCHER in every other state combined. That remainder ($16,301,336) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 174 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 2,910 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $755,760 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Colorado dollars, or only the RANCHER national total, drops a key. One hundred seventy-four donors producing 2,910 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $755,760 headline.

Related tables

Rancher donations holds the $17,057,096 national occupation total. Colorado campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. The same occupation string also appears in a New Mexico tie in this slice; that is a different state join.

Questions

How much have Rancher donors in Colorado given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation RANCHER and state Colorado total $755,760, from 2,910 contributions and 174 donors. Nationwide, RANCHER-coded receipts are $17,057,096 from 40,878 contributions and 3,387 donors. Colorado is about 4.4% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count Colorado ranches?

No. The FEC file does not verify acreage or livestock. Occupation is the string RANCHER and state is CO. One hundred seventy-four donors are not a USDA operator list. The 174 Colorado donors used occupation RANCHER and state CO. Filers who wrote RANCH OWNER or CATTLEMAN may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Rancher FEC money is from Colorado?

About 4.4% of the $17,057,096 occupation total is in this Colorado join ($755,760). Colorado also accounts for about 7.1% of contributions (2,910 of 40,878) and about 5.1% of donors (174 of 3,387). A New Mexico Rancher tie in this slice is a separate state join.

Does this money go to Colorado candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Colorado. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $755,760 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CO; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.