Middle Seat Consulting
vendor · #42 of 310 in Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024all Schedule E rows for this payee on fec.gov ↗verified by hand · rule case/punctuation/suffix normalisation + token-set ≥0.92 (numeric tokens must match); aliases file — hand alias row folds 2 filed payee string(s) into one vendor — checked by devin-block2-vendors on Sep 5, 2026fec.gov ↗
By medium
Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed; the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.
inferred · rule Medium is classified from the purpose string the spender filed on Schedule E, by an ordered keyword table (first match wins, keywords matched at word starts): production: produc, creative, design, videograph, photograph, filming; digital: digital, online, internet, web, social, streaming, email, youtube, facebook, google, meta, gif; radio: radio; tv: tv, television, broadcast, cable, media buy, media placement; mail: mail, postage, postcard, print; phones: phone, text, sms, robocall, call, dial, teleconferenc; consulting: poll, research, consult, strateg, list, targeting, voter file; field: canvass, door, field, gotv; other: no match. The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.Schedule E fields ↗
Who paid this vendor
| Spender | Paid | Buys |
|---|---|---|
| FORWARD BLUE | $114,000 | 2 |
| NATIONAL NURSES UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTION | $105,826 | 2 |
Candidates named on the buys
Targeting, not money: the spender declares support or opposition on each Schedule E row; the candidate receives nothing.
Ads linked to this vendor
None. An ad is linked only when a person verified it from a source naming both, or when this was the only digital vendor its sponsor paid in the week before and while it ran — the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad, so this is not evidence that the vendor made no ads.
Separately, 3 other ads ran within a week of this vendor being paid for placeable media — 3 by FORWARD BLUE. FEC records do not identify which vendor placed them, so they are listed here as a fact about dates, not as this vendor's ads.
Every buy
| Date | Spender | S/O | Target | Amount | Medium | Filed payee · purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2024 | NATIONAL NURSES UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTION | S | Bob Casey | $52,913 | consulting | MIDDLE SEAT CONSULTING LLC · AD CONSULTING | FEC ↗ |
| Oct 2, 2024 | FORWARD BLUE | S | Bob Casey | $76,000 | production | MIDDLE SEAT · DIGITAL ADVERTISING AND PRODUCTION | FEC ↗ |
| Oct 2, 2024 | FORWARD BLUE | O | Dave McCormick | $38,000 | production | MIDDLE SEAT · DIGITAL ADVERTISING AND PRODUCTION | FEC ↗ |
| Sep 18, 2024 | NATIONAL NURSES UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTION | S | Bob Casey | $52,913 | other | MIDDLE SEAT CONSULTING LLC · BILLBOARD RENTAL | FEC ↗ |
Every Schedule E independent expenditure names a payee. Payee strings are normalised (case, punctuation, legal suffixes, token order), near-duplicates are folded with a difflib ratio ≥ 0.92 when their numeric tokens match, and hand alias rows from data/hand/<race>/vendor_aliases.json override the rule. Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed (ordered keyword table in campaign_commons/vendors.py). The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad: vendor ↔ ad links are date-window adjacency (or single-digital-vendor inference) from campaign_commons.ads_enrich, each with its basis, and are only `verified` when a person found a source naming both. Totals are the filed amounts, grouped, never re-estimated.