Writer political contributions from Colorado

The Writer–Colorado intersection

Occupation WRITER and donor state CO produce $1,255,126, 5,991 contributions, and 157 donors. The occupation hub is $80,210,868, 312,329 contributions, and 8,768 donors. Colorado’s dollar share is about 1.6%; contribution share about 1.9% (5,991 of 312,329); donor share about 1.8% (157 of 8,768). One hundred fifty-seven Colorado donors are 1.8% of 8,768 national WRITER donors. Contributions (5,991 of 312,329) are about 1.9%; dollars about 1.6%.

AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, and FREELANCE WRITER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack WRITER with AUTHOR or JOURNALIST into a single Colorado professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

157 Colorado donors produced 5,991 contributions, about 38.2 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.6 rows per donor nationally (312,329 contributions from 8,768 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Colorado cell is about $210, against about $257 nationwide. Colorado’s mean gift is about $210, below the national Writer mean of about $257. Rows per donor (about 38.2) sit near the national Writer pace (about 35.6).

WRITER receipts with a Colorado address

WRITER is a filer-entered string. The file does not split journalism, fiction, or technical writing. The word WRITER plus CO is the filter. The $80,210,868 national total is WRITER only. 8,768 donors produced 312,329 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 312,329 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Colorado (CO). This page locates the Colorado overlap. It does not name publishers among the 157 Colorado donors.

Colorado as donor state

157 Colorado donors produced 5,991 contributions totaling $1,255,126. 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 workplace and not a limit to Colorado candidates. Denver and mountain addresses share the same code.

The Colorado campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CO. This join is only WRITER. The Writer occupation hub without Colorado still holds about 98.4% of the $80,210,868. Colorado’s state hub includes every occupation coded to CO. WRITER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Writer plus Colorado

This page does not merge Author dollars, count guild members, or claim that Writer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. WRITER is not AUTHOR. Those strings, if used, never enter the $1,255,126.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. WRITER is not a writers-guild census. Donor state CO is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Bylines are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Writer filter

Subtract the Colorado dollars on this page from the national WRITER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded WRITER in every other state combined. That remainder ($78,955,742) 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 157 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 5,991 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,255,126 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 WRITER national total, drops a key. One hundred fifty-seven donors producing 5,991 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,255,126 headline.

Related tables

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 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. Minnesota’s Writer join is more row-heavy; Virginia’s has more donors. Do not add those cells here.

Questions

How much have Writer donors in Colorado given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation WRITER and state Colorado total $1,255,126, from 5,991 contributions and 157 donors. Nationwide, WRITER-coded receipts are $80,210,868 from 312,329 contributions and 8,768 donors. Colorado is about 1.6% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Writer include Colorado journalists?

Only if the filer typed WRITER. JOURNALIST is a different occupation key. One hundred fifty-seven Colorado donors used WRITER plus CO. The 157 Colorado donors used occupation WRITER and state CO. Filers who wrote AUTHOR or JOURNALIST may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Writer FEC money is from Colorado?

About 1.6% of the $80,210,868 occupation total is in this Colorado join ($1,255,126). Colorado also accounts for about 1.9% of contributions (5,991 of 312,329) and about 1.8% of donors (157 of 8,768). About 1.6% of dollars from 157 of 8,768 donors and 5,991 of 312,329 contributions.

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 $1,255,126 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.