Texas fundraising in the 2008 cycle

Where Texas sits inside the 2008 FEC cycle

Cycle 2008 and Texas (TX) are the two nouns this URL must keep together. Drop Texas 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 $82.8 million from 88 candidates.

2.5% names $82,820,012.32 as a share of $3,257,217,142.47. It does not name a share of Texas 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.

Texas (TX) is the FEC office-state code. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. 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 Texas as an office state

Texas (TX) in 2008 is one cell in a cycle-by-state grid. The cell value is $82,820,012.32. The cell's candidate count is 88. Other cells in the 2008 row sum to $3,174,397,130.15. 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 Texas against Tennessee, Ohio, or any other office state. Rankings would require the other cells. Texas (TX) is the FEC office-state code. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. Office state is not a donor map.

Reading $3.3 billion as the 2008 denominator

National candidate volume in 2008 is 1638. Texas candidate volume is 88. Dollar counterparts are $3,257,217,142.47 and $82,820,012.32. 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 Texas inside 2008. Independent expenditures remain out of scope. Source: FEC.gov.

Do not mix state receipts with the cycle total

$82.8 million sits inside $3.3 billion the way a state cell sits inside a national row. Removing Texas does not make $82,820,012.32 equal $3,257,217,142.47. Removing other states does not make $3,257,217,142.47 equal $82,820,012.32. Citations should name the filter that was applied.

88 versus 1638 is the candidate-count analog of that nesting. 88 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Means $941,137 (Texas) 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 $82,820,012.32 would invent a number.

Federal awards in Texas are USAspending, not FEC. $82,820,012.32 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 Texas and 2008.

Amended reports and live hubs

Candidate reports amend. A later 2008 extract can raise or lower $82,820,012.32 without this JSON file changing. Treat the live Texas hub and the live 2008 hub as current, and treat this prose as a labeled snapshot of packet facts: $82,820,012.32, 88, $3,257,217,142.47, 1638.

Texas (TX) is the FEC office-state code. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. Sibling cycle-state pages for other years or other office states are other slugs. Do not reuse $82,820,012.32 on those pages.

A compact worksheet for this pair starts with labels, not with a ranking. Label one: Texas 2008 candidate receipts = $82,820,012.32. Label two: U.S. 2008 candidate receipts = $3,257,217,142.47. Label three: other office states in 2008 = $3,174,397,130.15. Label four: Texas candidate count = 88. Label five: U.S. candidate count = 1638. Label six: dollar share = 2.5%. Nothing in that worksheet is a donor list. Nothing in it is a federal award. 88 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. Mean receipts of about $941,137 in Texas 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. Texas (TX) is the FEC office-state code. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas office states remain on their own cycle-state pages. 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

Who raised $82.8 million in Texas in 2008?

88 federal candidates with office state TX 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. This tie stays aggregated to office state and cycle.

Why is $3,257,217,142.47 on the Texas page?

Because this is a join. $3,257,217,142.47 is the national 2008 denominator that makes 2.5% computable. It is not additional Texas money. Texas money in 2008 remains $82,820,012.32. Cite the national figure only as the cycle total, never as the Texas office-state cell.

Does 88 include state-legislature candidates in Texas?

No. These are FEC candidate records for federal office, grouped by office state TX. Texas state-office campaigns file under state law, not in this FEC candidate-receipt join. 88 is the federal candidate count in the packet, not a legislature roster.

Where should I go next from this Texas 2008 tie?

Open the 2008 election cycle for the national year, Texas 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. Sibling cycle-state slugs are other keys.