Milwaukee, WI political money — 2012 cycle

Milwaukee, WI × 2012 is a city-cycle join

$183,402 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MILWAUKEE with state WI, and election cycle 2012. The match is $183,402 across 211 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $73,400,945. 2012 therefore accounts for 0.25% of Milwaukee, WI itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $73,217,543 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Milwaukee, WI. That hub mixes 2012 with every other even-year window filed under MILWAUKEE. It is also not a restatement of the 2012 election cycle hub, which mixes Milwaukee, WI with every other donor city in the United States. The 211 rows and $183,402 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

MILWAUKEE as a Wisconsin address string

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city MILWAUKEE in Wisconsin totals $73.4 million ($73,400,945). $183,402 is 0.25% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2012 was quiet in Milwaukee; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $183,402 to $73,400,945; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $73,400,945 − $183,402 = $73,217,543 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan. Cudahy, St. Francis, and Fox Point are other FEC city strings and are not rolled into MILWAUKEE. State WI stays on the citation so Milwaukee is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $73.4 million is the WI key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2012 presidential window on Milwaukee receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Milwaukee, WI filers itemized $183,402 on 211 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $869 per itemized gift ($183,402 ÷ 211). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 211-row Schedule A extract — enough lines to be a file, still receipts rather than unique households. The national 2012 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Wisconsin still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Milwaukee × 2012. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Wisconsin campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $183,402 into the state hub a second time.

2012 versus the rest of the Milwaukee book

0.25% of $73,400,945 is the 2012 slice. Put another way, about 0.25% of Milwaukee, WI’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2012, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $183,402 divided by $73,400,945 and $73,217,543 divided by $73,400,945. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.25%) and row volume (211 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Lake Michigan is map geography, not an FEC column. This packet does not score shoreline cities against inland Wisconsin strings. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.25% as Milwaukee’s share of the 2012 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

211 receipts, a mean, and omitted FEC tables

211 itemized contributions totaling $183,402 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of MILWAUKEE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Milwaukee versus other Wisconsin cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $869 uses only the two numbers in the join: $183,402 and 211 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $183,402 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MILWAUKEE is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Milwaukee.

What a Milwaukee–2012 match cannot answer

This page does not rank Milwaukee against other cities, does not call 2012 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Wisconsin. Two columns matched. A WI address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Wisconsin candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Milwaukee, WI hub or the live 2012 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Do not treat 211 rows as 211 unique Milwaukee households. Repeat dates and multiple committees add lines without naming a new person.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Milwaukee, WI, the 2012 election cycle, Wisconsin campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Occupation, employer, and committee identity are other LobbyVault joins. This URL holds contributor city plus election cycle only. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Milwaukee, WI donors give in the 2012 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Milwaukee, WI total $183,402 in the 2012 cycle, across 211 contribution records. The same city label totals $73,400,945 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2012 is 0.25% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Milwaukee’s citywide FEC total only from 2012?

No. The city aggregate of $73,400,945 covers every cycle in the table for MILWAUKEE. The 2012 filter is $183,402 from 211 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $73,217,543. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2012 slice.

Did 2012 Milwaukee itemized gifts stay with Wisconsin candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Milwaukee, WI; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $183,402 by office, state of the committee, or party. A WI city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Wisconsin races.

How many Milwaukee, WI contributions were itemized in 2012?

211 itemized contribution records sum to $183,402. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $869 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.