Kentucky federal candidates in the 2008 cycle

Reading $43.1 million as cycle 2008 in KY

Headline number: $43,069,659.78 ($43.1 million). Candidate count: 20. National cycle receipts: $3,257,217,142.47 ($3.3 billion). National candidate count: 1638. Remainder outside Kentucky: $3,214,147,482.69. Share of the 2008 cycle: 1.3%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Kentucky in 2008 is not Kentucky in every year and is not 2008 in every state. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. The 20 candidates exist only at the intersection. An KY office-state code does not mean the receipts came from Kentucky donors, and it does not mean the money funded federal contracts in Kentucky.

Kentucky (KY) is the FEC office-state code. Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana office states stay on their own pages. FEC.gov stores cycle 2008 as a presidential even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Kentucky against other states. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts by cycle and office state.

Reading $43.1 million as an office-state book for 2008

The state dimension answers a different question than the national cycle. How much candidate-receipt money is stored under office state KY in cycle 2008? $43,069,659.78. How much of the U.S. 2008 candidate-receipt book is that? 1.3% ($43,069,659.78 of $3,257,217,142.47). The difference is $3,214,147,482.69 in other office states. Those are stack identities, not rankings.

Kentucky (KY) is the FEC office-state code. Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana office states stay on their own pages. Candidates who filed with a different office-state code are excluded from $43,069,659.78 even if they campaigned in Kentucky media markets. Filers do not get recoded. This page does not invent their names.

National 2008 receipts versus the Kentucky slice

Cycle 2008 tagged 1638 U.S. candidate records for a national sum of $3,257,217,142.47. Kentucky is 20 of those candidates and $43,069,659.78 of those dollars. That is the cycle slice versus the state slice. It is a presidential window. It is not a ranking of Kentucky among states, because this packet has one geography.

Quote $3.3 billion only as the national 2008 candidate-receipt total. Quote $43.1 million only as the Kentucky office-state total inside that cycle. Swapping the labels is the main citation error this page is written to block.

The complement: $3.2 billion outside Kentucky

The complement of the join inside the national cycle book is $3,214,147,482.69 (98.7%). That money is still cycle 2008; it is just not tagged office state KY. The join itself remains $43,069,659.78 / 20 candidates / Kentucky. Keep the complement and the join distinct in citations.

1.3% is not a turnout rate, not a share of Kentucky itemized individual dollars, and not a share of federal awards in Kentucky. Those denominators are absent. Use only $3,257,217,142.47 when stating the cycle share.

Receipts, not independent expenditures

What the table includes: FEC candidate receipts with office state KY and cycle 2008, summing to $43,069,659.78 across 20 candidates, against a national cycle $3,257,217,142.47 from 1638 candidates. What it excludes: everything else. That exclusion list is how this page stays a join instead of a hub restatement.

About $2.15 million per Kentucky candidate should never be quoted as a typical Kentucky campaign. Typical would need a median and an office-type split. This extract has neither. 20 candidates can hide a lopsided mix of large and small committees — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

How to cite the pair

Citation template: office state Kentucky (KY), election cycle 2008 (presidential), $43,069,659.78 in candidate receipts from 20 candidates, national cycle $3,257,217,142.47 from 1638 candidates, share 1.3%, remainder $3,214,147,482.69, Kentucky mean about $2.15 million per candidate. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault cycle-state aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2008 election cycle page, the Kentucky campaign-finance hub, all election cycles, and all FEC ties. If you need donor cuts of Kentucky, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays on one office state and one cycle.

Questions

Who raised $43.1 million in Kentucky in 2008?

20 federal candidates with office state KY in cycle 2008, in aggregate. This packet does not list their names, parties, or offices. Inventing a candidate or donor name would exceed the facts. Use live candidate pages for names.

Why is $3,257,217,142.47 on a Kentucky page?

Because this is a join. $3,257,217,142.47 is the national 2008 denominator that makes 1.3% computable. It is not additional Kentucky money. Kentucky money in 2008 remains $43,069,659.78. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total.

Does 20 include state-legislature candidates in Kentucky?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state KY. Kentucky state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 20 is the federal candidate count in the packet.

Where should I go next from this Kentucky 2008 tie?

Open the 2008 election cycle for the national year, Kentucky campaign finance for the all-cycle state mix, all election cycles for other windows, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the only internal links this packet authorizes.