Enterprise, AL political money — 2008 cycle

How Enterprise, AL meets the 2008 election cycle

$828,600 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ENTERPRISE with state AL, and election cycle 2008. The match is $828,600 across 34 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $18,506,704. 2008 therefore accounts for 4.5% of Enterprise, AL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $17,678,104 (95.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Enterprise, AL. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under ENTERPRISE. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Enterprise, AL with every other donor city in the United States. The 34 rows and $828,600 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Enterprise, AL here is the string that survived aggregation as ENTERPRISE in AL. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Enterprise, AL donors itemized $828,600. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Enterprise, AL side of the join

The city aggregate for Enterprise, AL is $18,506,704 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $828,600 from 2008 and the $17,678,104 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level AL campaign-finance pages still mix Enterprise with every other city in AL.

The stored city is the City of Enterprise in Coffee County, Alabama. Dothan, Ozark, and Daleville are not rolled into ENTERPRISE. State AL stays on the citation so Enterprise, AL is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $18,506,704 is the AL key only. For Enterprise, AL, the city stack is $18,506,704 while this cycle is $828,600 (4.5%). Use the city hub for Enterprise, AL without a year filter; use this tie for Enterprise in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. Thirty-four itemized rows with a high arithmetic mean is a thin file, not a census of Coffee County households.

The 2008 cycle side for AL filers in Enterprise

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Enterprise, AL donors itemized $828,600 on 34 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $24,371 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for AL still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Enterprise × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 34 itemized rows with a mean near $24,371 is a thin file with large average lines, not a census of households. Treat 34 as receipts, not unique people. A high mean is $828,600 divided by 34 — arithmetic, not a wealth ranking. This URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Enterprise

4.5% of $18,506,704 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 4.5% of Enterprise, AL's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 95.5% were not. Those percentages are $828,600 divided by $18,506,704 and $17,678,104 divided by $18,506,704. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (4.5%) and row volume (34 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 4.5% as Enterprise's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Coffee County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $828,600.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

34 itemized contributions totaling $828,600 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of ENTERPRISE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Enterprise versus other AL cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Thirty-four lines totaling $828,600 can be a handful of large itemized gifts, amendments, or repeat committees. That possibility is a caveat, not a named-donor list — this packet publishes no names.

Mean gift size of about $24,371 uses only the two numbers in the join: $828,600 and 34 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This page does not break $828,600 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed ENTERPRISE is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Enterprise.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Enterprise against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in AL. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. An AL address does not mean the money supported an AL candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Enterprise, AL hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Enterprise, AL, the 2008 election cycle, Alabama campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Enterprise, AL donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Enterprise, AL total $828,600 in the 2008 cycle, across 34 contribution records. The same city label totals $18,506,704 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 4.5% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Enterprise, AL city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $18,506,704 covers every cycle in the table for ENTERPRISE. The 2008 filter is $828,600 from 34 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $17,678,104. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Enterprise, AL 2008 donations stay in AL?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Enterprise, AL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $828,600 by office, state of the committee, or party. An AL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of AL races.

How many Enterprise, AL contributions were itemized in 2008?

34 itemized contribution records sum to $828,600. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $24,371 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.