Minnesota candidate fundraising — 2008 cycle

Minnesota office state inside the 2008 cycle

Minnesota office-state candidates reported $72,376,989 in the 2008 FEC.gov candidate-receipt table. That figure is Minnesota candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state MN during the 2008 cycle, as grouped on FEC.gov. The matching national book is $3,257,217,142 ($3.26 billion) across 1,638 candidates. Minnesota is 2.2% of those cycle dollars and 2.3% of the cycle candidate roster. This page exists because the two dimensions meet. It is not a restatement of the 2008 cycle hub alone and not a restatement of the Minnesota state hub across every cycle.

The 2008 Minnesota cell is not a state-office campaign-finance extract and not a donor-residence roll-up of Minnesota ZIP codes. Thirty-eight Minnesota office-state candidates is a compact roster against 1,638 cycle candidates, so dollars per listed candidate run high as an arithmetic mean only. Candidate receipts here are committee-side totals for the office-state filter. They are not independent expenditures, not a Schedule A donor directory, and not USAspending award dollars. The cycle hub lives at /election-cycles/2008/; the Minnesota hub lives at /states/MN/. Every cycle is indexed at /election-cycles/, and sibling joins sit at /ties/.

Thirty-eight Minnesota candidates and $72.4 million

Minnesota’s 2008 cell holds $72,376,989 ($72.4 million) from 38 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $1,904,658 per listed candidate. That mean is a ratio of two FEC columns. It is not a median, not a typical itemized contribution, and not evidence that each campaign raised the same amount. The Minnesota hub at /states/MN/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2008 only.

The 2008 cycle remainder outside Minnesota

The 2008 cycle table on FEC.gov shows $3,257,217,142 in candidate receipts nationwide and 1,638 candidates. After removing Minnesota, $3,184,840,153 and 1,600 candidates remain in other office states. Those remainder figures are arithmetic (cycle minus state). They are not a second FEC file. Opening only this tie would hide that remainder. The 2008 hub at /election-cycles/2008/ keeps the full book; /election-cycles/ lists every cycle; /ties/ lists other two-key joins.

Minnesota 2008: IEs and awards stay out

This join does not count independent expenditures, party coordinated expenditures, or unitemized receipts that never entered the candidate-receipt aggregate. It does not name donors. It does not say FEC receipts funded federal awards on USAspending.gov; those are different datasets even when the geography string matches. Office state MN is the seat sought, not the mailing state of contributors. Correlation between a busy cycle and a large state cell is not causation and not an election-outcome claim. Quote $72,376,989 as Minnesota in 2008, and quote $3,257,217,142 as the 2008 national total — never as each other.

Cycle and state indexes for Minnesota 2008

Read /states/MN/ for Minnesota campaign-finance totals that mix cycles. Read /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 cycle across every office state. Read /election-cycles/ for the cycle index and /ties/ for other FEC two-dimension pages. This URL, Minnesota × 2008, is only the overlap: 38 candidates and $72,376,989 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Office state on this page is the state of the federal office. A Senate or House candidate listed with office state MN enters the Minnesota cell for 2008 even if some receipts were raised out of state. A donor who lives in Minnesota and gives to a different office state does not enter this cell by residence. The Minnesota hub at /states/MN/ is the broader state view; this tie freezes one cycle.

Cite two lines, never one: 2008 Minnesota office-state candidate receipts $72,376,989 from 38 candidates, and 2008 national candidate receipts $3,257,217,142 from 1,638 candidates. The first line is the join cell. The second is the cycle book. FEC.gov is the source for both. Canonical path: /ties/2008-minnesota-candidate-receipts/.

Minnesota 2008: 38 candidates, $72,376,989. The 2008 cycle lists 1,638 candidates and $3,257,217,142. A later FEC bulk file can move Minnesota’s 2008 cell and the 2008 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $72,376,989 and $3,257,217,142 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Questions

How much did Minnesota federal candidates raise in 2008?

$72,376,989 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Minnesota during the 2008 cycle. It is not the $3.26 billion national cycle total and not independent expenditures. Office state is the seat, not donor home address. Thirty-eight is the office-state candidate count.

What did the 2008 cycle raise nationwide?

The 2008 cycle book on FEC.gov is $3,257,217,142 across 1,638 candidates nationwide. Minnesota is 38 of those candidates and $72,376,989 of those receipts (2.2% of cycle dollars). Keep $72.4 million (Minnesota) apart from $3.26 billion (cycle).

Are 2008 independent expenditures in this total?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2008 and office state MN. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. The source note excludes independent expenditures.

How do I open Minnesota or 2008 without this join?

Use /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 national cycle hub and /states/MN/ for Minnesota across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Those hubs mix other cycles or other states. FEC.gov candidate receipts are the source for both columns on this join.