Virginia (VA) candidate receipts, 2008 cycle

Virginia and the 2008 cycle as a two-column join

LobbyVault keeps a Virginia state page and a 2008 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $44,854,776.87 from 52 candidates where cycle equals 2008 and office state equals VA. Against the national cycle total of $3,257,217,142.47, that is 1.4%. Other office states in the same cycle hold $3.2 billion.

Do not treat 1.4% as Virginia's share of donor dollars from Virginia residents. Donor geography is not in these facts. Do not treat 52 as unique people who live in Virginia. The count is candidates with office state VA in cycle 2008. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count, a party split, or an office (Senate versus House) split for this pair.

The 2008 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $44,854,776.87 is the stored Virginia office-state total for that window. Virginia (VA) is the FEC office-state code. Maryland, District of Columbia, and North Carolina office states are other keys. Dollar figures are candidate receipt aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings. Independent expenditures are other files.

Virginia office-state receipts without a national mix-in

52 is a relatively large candidate file for this office state. 52 candidates produced $44,854,776.87. Mean about $862,592 per candidate is $44,854,776.87 divided by 52. That ratio is not a typical campaign budget: a handful of statewide committees can dominate a mean while many House challengers file much smaller totals. No median is in the packet.

Virginia (VA) is the FEC office-state code. Maryland, District of Columbia, and North Carolina office states are other keys. Keep VA on the name. Other states have their own 2008 ties. $44,854,776.87 is not a Virginia state-office total under state law. Open the Virginia campaign-finance hub for the all-cycle state mix; open this page for Virginia in 2008 only.

2008 as a presidential FEC window

On the cycle side, 1638 U.S. candidates produced $3,257,217,142.47. Repeat filings and amended reports can still sit inside a candidate count of 1638 as stored. The packet does not say how many unique humans those records represent beyond the candidate count given. About $1.99 million per U.S. candidate is a trivial division, not a finding about wealth. Presidential versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2008, not an explanation of Virginia's $44.9 million.

Independent expenditures never enter these candidate-receipt totals. Committee operating expenditures as a separate table never enter them. State-office filings never enter them. This is a candidate-receipt cycle×office-state aggregate from FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $44,854,776.87 is the stored Virginia office-state total for that window.

1.4% of 2008 U.S. candidate receipts

Compared with the rest of the 2008 cycle, Virginia is 1.4% of candidate receipts ($44,854,776.87 of $3,257,217,142.47). The rest is $3,212,362,365.60. 52 is the Virginia candidate count only. Quote dollars and candidates as different columns. Mixing them produces a fake density statistic this packet does not support.

Do not rank Virginia as a winner or loser in 2008. This join has one office state and one cycle. Neighboring cycle-state pages are other keys. Virginia campaign finance still mixes years.

What 52 Virginia candidates are not

Candidate receipts are the only money on this page. 52 Virginia candidates sum to $44,854,776.87 in 2008. If a researcher needs donor-city cuts, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs committee names, those are not in this packet. Do not invent donor names.

Office state VA is a candidate field. Cycle 2008 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 52 candidates raised $44.9 million. Correlation is not causation. An office in Virginia does not locate the donors who funded the committee.

Using Virginia and 2008 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $44,854,776.87 from 52 candidates is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. Virginia × 2008 is a database join.

Researchers should keep VA as the stored office-state code and 2008 as the cycle tag. Virginia (VA) is the FEC office-state code. Maryland, District of Columbia, and North Carolina office states are other keys. Source: FEC.gov candidate receipts grouped by election cycle and office state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

How does Virginia in 2008 differ from the Virginia state hub?

The state hub mixes every cycle stored for office state VA. This tie keeps only 2008, where receipts are $44,854,776.87 from 52 candidates. If you need Virginia without a year filter, use the state hub. If you need Virginia 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 Virginia, where receipts are $44,854,776.87 from 52 candidates. The cycle hub is the parent row; this URL is one cell.

What does a mean of $862,592 per Virginia candidate mean?

It is $44,854,776.87 divided by 52. 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 Virginia total a closed final number?

The 2008 cycle is a closed even-year window in this extract; $44,854,776.87 is the stored Virginia office-state total for that window. Amended candidate reports can still move $44,854,776.87. If the live Virginia hub or the live 2008 hub disagrees with this snapshot, use the newer FEC extract. This JSON file does not replace FEC.gov.