Little Rock, AR political money — 2008 cycle

Reading Little Rock against cycle 2008

$247,071 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city LITTLE ROCK with state AR, and election cycle 2008. The match is $247,071 across 166 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $174,186,411. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.14% of Little Rock, AR itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $173,939,340 (99.86%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Little Rock, AR. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under LITTLE ROCK. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Little Rock, AR with every other donor city in the United States. The 166 rows and $247,071 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. Little Rock, AR here is the string that survived aggregation as LITTLE ROCK in AR. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Little Rock, AR donors itemized $247,071. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Little Rock's city aggregate, without a year filter

The city aggregate for Little Rock, AR is $174,186,411 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 $247,071 from 2008 and the $173,939,340 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level AR campaign-finance pages still mix Little Rock with every other city in AR.

The stored city is the City of Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. North Little Rock, Conway, and Fayetteville are not rolled into LITTLE ROCK. State AR stays on the citation so Little Rock, AR is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $174,186,411 is the AR key only. For Little Rock, AR, the city stack is $174,186,411 while this cycle is $247,071 (0.14%). Use the city hub for Little Rock, AR without a year filter; use this tie for Little Rock in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. NORTH LITTLE ROCK is a separate FEC city string.

Isolating Little Rock inside the 2008 cycle hub

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, Little Rock, AR donors itemized $247,071 on 166 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,488 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 AR still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Little Rock × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A small share of a large city book can still be hundreds of thousands of itemized dollars. 166 rows and a mean near $1,488 describe this pair only. Do not treat a tiny percentage as a quiet city; later cycles in the same string can dwarf $247,071. This URL is the intersection only.

Where $247,071 sits inside $174.2 million

0.14% of $174,186,411 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.14% of Little Rock, AR's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.86% were not. Those percentages are $247,071 divided by $174,186,411 and $173,939,340 divided by $174,186,411. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.14%) and row volume (166 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 0.14% as Little Rock's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Pulaski County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $247,071.

Schedule A city strings and missing tables

166 itemized contributions totaling $247,071 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 LITTLE ROCK. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Little Rock versus other AR cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,488 uses only the two numbers in the join: $247,071 and 166 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 $247,071 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed LITTLE ROCK is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Little Rock.

Citing this pair on FEC.gov terms

This page does not rank Little Rock against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in AR. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. An AR address does not mean the money supported an AR candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Little Rock, AR 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 Little Rock, AR, the 2008 election cycle, Arkansas 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 Little Rock, AR donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Little Rock, AR total $247,071 in the 2008 cycle, across 166 contribution records. The same city label totals $174,186,411 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.14% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Little Rock, AR city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $174,186,411 covers every cycle in the table for LITTLE ROCK. The 2008 filter is $247,071 from 166 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $173,939,340. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Little Rock, AR 2008 donations stay in AR?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Little Rock, AR; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $247,071 by office, state of the committee, or party. An AR city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of AR races.

How many Little Rock, AR contributions were itemized in 2008?

166 itemized contribution records sum to $247,071. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,488 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.