Nashville, TN political money in the 2012 election cycle

How Nashville meets the 2012 election cycle

$734,712 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city NASHVILLE with state TN, and election cycle 2012. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Nashville, TN city hub and the 2012 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers “how much itemized money has this city string produced across cycles.” The cycle hub answers “how much itemized money did that two-year federal window produce nationally.” This page answers only the intersection: Nashville, TN in 2012.

430 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored NASHVILLE is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,709 ($734,712 ÷ 430). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2012 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $734,712. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $734,712 for the 2012 slice and $165.2 million for the Nashville, TN book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Nashville, TN side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city NASHVILLE in Tennessee totals $165.2 million. $734,712 is 0.4% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Nashville; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Nashville, TN table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Davidson County, Tennessee. Brentwood and Franklin store separately when filers type those names. State TN stays on the citation so Nashville is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $165.2 million is the TN key only.

The 2012 cycle side for Tennessee filers in Nashville

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 430 Nashville, TN lines in that window produced $734,712. National 2012 activity — every city — lives on the 2012 election cycle hub, not here.

Tennessee campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Nashville. Do not add $734,712 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $734,712 into spending by Nashville candidates.

What $734,712 does not measure

$734,712 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city NASHVILLE. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Tennessee file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Nashville can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed NASHVILLE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Nashville. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 430 as lines that stored this string in 2012.

Reading Nashville and 2012 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $734,712 beside $165.2 million does not mean 2012 “caused” the city book or that Nashville “drove” the 2012 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Nashville, TN hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Nashville, TN, the 2012 election cycle, Tennessee campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $734,712 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Nashville, TN donors give in 2012?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city NASHVILLE and cycle 2012 total $734,712 across 430 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Nashville, TN book of $165.2 million. Unitemized gifts and Tennessee state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $734,712 all of Nashville’s federal political money?

No. $165.2 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city NASHVILLE in TN. The 2012 slice is $734,712, 0.4% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Nashville, TN hub. 430 is a 2012 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2012 Nashville total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed NASHVILLE with state TN. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Nashville can sit in $734,712 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Nashville, TN 2012 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $734,712 and 430 lines for NASHVILLE in cycle 2012, and $165.2 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.