North Carolina 2008 cycle candidate fundraising

Office state North Carolina inside the 2008 FEC cycle

Cycle 2008 and North Carolina (NC) are the two nouns this URL must keep together. Drop North Carolina and you are citing $3.3 billion from 1638 U.S. candidates. Drop 2008 and you are citing a state hub that still mixes other even-year windows. Keep both and the number is $47.3 million from 42 candidates.

1.5% names $47,262,872.81 as a share of $3,257,217,142.47. It does not name a share of North Carolina population, a share of House seats, or a share of itemized individual donors. Those denominators are absent. $3.2 billion is the complement inside the same 2008 cycle, other office states only.

North Carolina (NC) is the FEC office-state code. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee office states stay separate. 2008 is a presidential two-year FEC window. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Not a claim about federal spending.

How FEC stores North Carolina as an office state

North Carolina (NC) in 2008 is one cell in a cycle-by-state grid. The cell value is $47,262,872.81. The cell's candidate count is 42. Other cells in the 2008 row sum to $3,209,954,269.66. This page publishes one cell, then explains the row total $3,257,217,142.47.

Because the packet has one state, this page does not rank North Carolina against Tennessee, Ohio, or any other office state. Rankings would require the other cells. North Carolina (NC) is the FEC office-state code. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee office states stay separate. Office state is not a donor map.

Reading $3.3 billion as the 2008 denominator

National candidate volume in 2008 is 1638. North Carolina candidate volume is 42. Dollar counterparts are $3,257,217,142.47 and $47,262,872.81. Pair counts with dollars. A small candidate file can still hold a large dollar total if a few committees dominate; this packet does not prove that pattern, and it does not disprove it.

Use the 2008 election cycle page for the full national mix. Use this tie for North Carolina inside 2008. Independent expenditures remain out of scope. Source: FEC.gov.

Do not mix state receipts with the cycle total

$47.3 million sits inside $3.3 billion the way a state cell sits inside a national row. Removing North Carolina does not make $47,262,872.81 equal $3,257,217,142.47. Removing other states does not make $3,257,217,142.47 equal $47,262,872.81. Citations should name the filter that was applied.

42 versus 1638 is the candidate-count analog of that nesting. 42 is a mid-size candidate file. Means $1.13 million (North Carolina) and $1.99 million (U.S.) stay attached to their denominators.

What FEC candidate receipts include here

Independent expenditures can dwarf or trail candidate receipts in a given state-cycle, and this packet does not say which. Super PAC and other independent-spend tables are other files. Mixing them into $47,262,872.81 would invent a number.

Federal awards in North Carolina are USAspending, not FEC. $47,262,872.81 does not pay for those awards. $3,257,217,142.47 does not pay for them either. Keep the statutes apart even though both can mention North Carolina and 2008.

Amended reports and live hubs

Candidate reports amend. A later 2008 extract can raise or lower $47,262,872.81 without this JSON file changing. Treat the live North Carolina hub and the live 2008 hub as current, and treat this prose as a labeled snapshot of packet facts: $47,262,872.81, 42, $3,257,217,142.47, 1638.

North Carolina (NC) is the FEC office-state code. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee office states stay separate. Sibling cycle-state pages for other years or other office states are other slugs. Do not reuse $47,262,872.81 on those pages.

A compact worksheet for this pair starts with labels, not with a ranking. Label one: North Carolina 2008 candidate receipts = $47,262,872.81. Label two: U.S. 2008 candidate receipts = $3,257,217,142.47. Label three: other office states in 2008 = $3,209,954,269.66. Label four: North Carolina candidate count = 42. Label five: U.S. candidate count = 1638. Label six: dollar share = 1.5%. Nothing in that worksheet is a donor list. Nothing in it is a federal award. 42 is a mid-size candidate file. Mean receipts of about $1.13 million in North Carolina use labels one and four only. Mean receipts of about $1.99 million nationwide use labels two and five only. Cross-wiring those labels invents a statistic. North Carolina (NC) is the FEC office-state code. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee office states stay separate. Cycle 2008 is a presidential window, which dates the worksheet and does not interpret it. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Questions

How does North Carolina in 2008 differ from the North Carolina state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state NC. This tie keeps only 2008, where receipts are $47,262,872.81 from 42 candidates. If you need North Carolina without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need North Carolina in 2008 only, use this page.

How does this page differ from the 2008 election cycle hub?

The cycle hub mixes every office state. National receipts are $3,257,217,142.47 from 1638 candidates. This page keeps only North Carolina, where receipts are $47,262,872.81 from 42 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell.

What does a mean of $1.13 million per North Carolina candidate mean?

It is $47,262,872.81 divided by 42. It is not a median, not a typical House budget, and not a unique-person average. A few large statewide committees can pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median or an office-type split.

Is the 2008 North Carolina total a closed final number?

The 2008 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $47,262,872.81 is the stored North Carolina office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $47,262,872.81. If the live North Carolina hub or the live 2008 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov.