Pennsylvania candidate fundraising — 2008 cycle

The 2008 cycle × Pennsylvania office-state join

Sixty-two Pennsylvania office-state candidates reported $59,218,808 on FEC.gov for the 2008 cycle. That figure is Pennsylvania candidate-committee receipts for federal office in office state PA 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. Pennsylvania is 1.8% of those cycle dollars and 3.8% 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 Pennsylvania state hub across every cycle.

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

Sixty-two Pennsylvania candidates and the dollar cell

Pennsylvania’s 2008 cell holds $59,218,808 ($59.2 million) from 62 office-state candidates. Dividing receipts by that candidate count gives an arithmetic mean of about $955,142 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 Pennsylvania hub at /states/PA/ mixes cycles; this tie freezes 2008 only.

The mean of about $955,000 per Pennsylvania 2008 candidate is an arithmetic ratio, not a typical itemized gift.

Pennsylvania’s share of the 2008 cycle

Pennsylvania accounts for 1.8% of 2008 cycle dollars and 3.8% of 2008 cycle candidates. Those two percentages need not match. A state can hold a larger share of listed candidates than of receipts, or the reverse. A 62-candidate Pennsylvania roster sits inside 1,638 cycle candidates. Neither percentage is a ranking of winners. The remaining $3,197,998,334 stayed in other office states.

Exclusions: IEs, donors, and federal awards

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 PA 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 $59,218,808 as Pennsylvania in 2008, and quote $3,257,217,142 as the 2008 national total — never as each other.

Hubs that sit beside this Pennsylvania 2008 tie

Read /states/PA/ for Pennsylvania 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, Pennsylvania × 2008, is only the overlap: 62 candidates and $59,218,808 in receipts, sourced to FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state.

Cite two lines, never one: 2008 Pennsylvania office-state candidate receipts $59,218,808 from 62 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-pennsylvania-candidate-receipts/.

Sixty-two PA office-state candidates produced $59,218,808 in 2008. This is not an independent-expenditure scoreboard. A later FEC bulk file can move Pennsylvania’s 2008 cell and the 2008 cycle book together; this snapshot stores $59,218,808 and $3,257,217,142 as harvested. Independent expenditures remain outside both columns. Donor names are not in this FEC grouping.

Office state PA is a federal-seat code on candidate filings, not a contributor ZIP roll-up and not a state-office ethics filing. 62 candidates produced $59,218,808 inside 2008. Other office states hold the remaining $3,197,998,334 of the $3.26 billion cycle book. All FEC ties at /ties/ lists sibling cycle-state pages so this overlap is not mistaken for the full Pennsylvania hub.

Questions

How much did Pennsylvania federal candidates raise in 2008?

$59,218,808 is FEC.gov candidate receipts for federal office in Pennsylvania 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. Sixty-two is the candidate count for office state PA, not contributors.

How big was the 2008 cycle nationwide?

The 2008 cycle book on FEC.gov is $3,257,217,142 across 1,638 candidates nationwide. Pennsylvania is 62 of those candidates and $59,218,808 of those receipts (1.8% of cycle dollars). Pennsylvania’s cell is a subset, not a substitute for the cycle total.

Are these Pennsylvania donor names?

No. This page is candidate committee receipts grouped by election cycle 2008 and office state PA. It does not name individual donors, does not sum PAC independent expenditures, and does not treat FEC receipts as USAspending awards. No contributor roster is published on this join.

How do I open the 2008 cycle or Pennsylvania hubs?

Use /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 national cycle hub and /states/PA/ for Pennsylvania across cycles. All election cycles live at /election-cycles/. Sibling cycle-state joins live at /ties/. Sibling cycle–state cells live under All FEC ties.