2008 Ohio office-state candidate receipts

The relationship: cycle 2008 and office state OH

Where cycle 2008 meets office state OH, candidate receipts sum to $44,087,088.85 across 62 candidates. The cycle aggregate without a state filter is $3,257,217,142.47 from 1638 candidates. Ohio is 1.4% of that national book; 98.6% ($3.2 billion) was filed under other office states. The arithmetic uses only packet facts.

This URL is a relationship page. Section one states the relationship. Later sections unpack the Ohio side, the 2008 side, the share, and the caveats. It is not a restatement of Ohio campaign finance across years, and it is not a restatement of the 2008 cycle across states.

Ohio (OH) is the FEC office-state code. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky office states are not merged into OH. A presidential cycle tag on 2008 does not explain $44.1 million. Independent expenditures are omitted. PAC-to-PAC transfers as a separate table are omitted. Federal spending awards are omitted. Source: FEC.gov.

Office state OH is not donor geography

Ohio's 2008 total of $44,087,088.85 is the state slice. The national parent set is $3,257,217,142.47. 1.4% names the slice as a share of the parent. $3,213,130,053.62 names the complement inside the same cycle. OH is the office state of the candidate, not a claim about Ohio elections for governor or legislature.

Use the state hub when the year does not matter. Use this tie when both Ohio and 2008 matter. Ohio (OH) is the FEC office-state code. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky office states are not merged into OH. Do not fold neighboring states into OH. Each office-state code is its own key.

Cycle 2008 is not the Ohio hub

The cycle dimension is the FEC even-year tag 2008 (presidential). Combined with Ohio, it yields $44,087,088.85 and 62 candidates. The national 2008 page still has every other office state. This page has one office state. Keep both nouns when citing: Ohio and 2008.

About $1.99 million per U.S. candidate is $3,257,217,142.47 divided by 1638. No median is in the packet. No party split is in the packet. No Senate-only or House-only subtotal is in the packet. Those omissions are intentional: the facts do not include them.

Dollar share is not candidate-count share

Inside cycle 2008, Ohio holds $44,087,088.85 and other office states hold $3,213,130,053.62. The cycle total is the sum: $3,257,217,142.47. 1.4% names the Ohio piece. 62 names the Ohio candidate file size. Mean about $711,082 names $44,087,088.85/62. Four numbers, four jobs.

If a later FEC extract revises $44,087,088.85 or $3,257,217,142.47, the live hubs control. This prose is a snapshot of the packet facts. Amended candidate reports can move either side of the join.

Means, medians, and missing splits

Dollars ($44,087,088.85), candidates (62), cycle total ($3,257,217,142.47), remainder ($3,213,130,053.62), share (1.4%), Ohio mean ($711,082), U.S. mean ($1.99 million): those are the numeric claims. Dates in the packet are the cycle year 2008 only. No other dollar, count, or URL is used. Internal links stay on the four hrefs in the packet.

Amended FEC reports can change $44,087,088.85 after this snapshot. If the live Ohio hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This file is not a third disclosure system.

Public records, not accusations

Do not convert $44,087,088.85 into a statement about how Ohio voted in 2008. Candidate receipts are a filing stream. Most residents never appear as candidates. 62 records are the candidate file, not the electorate. 1.4% of the national cycle is not 1.4% of Ohio.

See the 2008 election cycle for the national year cut, Ohio campaign finance for the state mix, all election cycles for other even-year windows, and all FEC ties for sibling joins. Dollar figures first. Source: FEC.gov.

A compact worksheet for this pair starts with labels, not with a ranking. Label one: Ohio 2008 candidate receipts = $44,087,088.85. Label two: U.S. 2008 candidate receipts = $3,257,217,142.47. Label three: other office states in 2008 = $3,213,130,053.62. Label four: Ohio candidate count = 62. Label five: U.S. candidate count = 1638. Label six: dollar share = 1.4%. Nothing in that worksheet is a donor list. Nothing in it is a federal award. 62 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Mean receipts of about $711,082 in Ohio 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. Ohio (OH) is the FEC office-state code. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky office states are not merged into OH. 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 much did Ohio candidates raise in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC candidate receipts for office state Ohio (OH) total $44,087,088.85 in the 2008 cycle, across 62 candidates. The national 2008 cycle totals $3,257,217,142.47 from 1638 candidates, so Ohio is 1.4% of that U.S. candidate-receipt stack. Figures are from FEC.gov cycle-by-office-state aggregates of candidate receipts only.

Is $3.3 billion the amount Ohio candidates raised in 2008?

No. $3,257,217,142.47 is the national 2008 candidate-receipt total. Ohio's office-state total in that cycle is $44,087,088.85. Other office states hold $3,213,130,053.62. Use the 2008 cycle hub for the U.S. figure and this tie page for the Ohio slice only. Independent expenditures are omitted from both totals as shown here.

Does office state OH mean the donors lived in Ohio?

No. Office state is the state of the federal seat on the candidate record. Donors can live anywhere. This join does not allocate the $44,087,088.85 by donor state, employer, or party. An OH office-state code is not a map of Ohio residents and is not a map of where the money was spent.

How many Ohio candidates are in the 2008 file?

62 candidate records sum to $44,087,088.85. That count is candidates, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $711,082 per candidate. Independent expenditures are not included. Unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.