Phoenix, AZ political money in the 2008 election cycle

How Phoenix meets the 2008 election cycle

$541,556 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PHOENIX with state AZ, and election cycle 2008. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Phoenix, AZ city hub and the 2008 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers “how much itemized money has this city string produced across cycles.” The cycle hub answers “how much itemized money did that two-year federal window produce nationally.” This page answers only the intersection: Phoenix, AZ in 2008.

498 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored PHOENIX is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,087 ($541,556 ÷ 498). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2008 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $541,556. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $541,556 for the 2008 slice and $181.1 million for the Phoenix, AZ book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Phoenix, AZ side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city PHOENIX in Arizona totals $181.1 million. $541,556 is 0.3% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Phoenix; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Phoenix, AZ table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Maricopa County, Arizona. Scottsdale, Tempe, and Mesa are not rolled into PHOENIX. State AZ stays on the citation so Phoenix is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $181.1 million is the AZ key only.

The 2008 cycle side for Arizona filers in Phoenix

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts. 498 Phoenix, AZ lines in that window produced $541,556. National 2008 activity — every city — lives on the 2008 election cycle hub, not here.

Arizona campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Phoenix. Do not add $541,556 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $541,556 into spending by Phoenix candidates.

What $541,556 does not measure

$541,556 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city PHOENIX. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Arizona file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Phoenix can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PHOENIX is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Phoenix. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 498 as lines that stored this string in 2008.

Reading Phoenix and 2008 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $541,556 beside $181.1 million does not mean 2008 “caused” the city book or that Phoenix “drove” the 2008 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Phoenix, AZ hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Internal links on this page go to Phoenix, AZ, the 2008 election cycle, Arizona campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $541,556 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars.

Questions

How much did Phoenix, AZ donors give in 2008?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city PHOENIX and cycle 2008 total $541,556 across 498 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Phoenix, AZ book of $181.1 million. Unitemized gifts and Arizona state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $541,556 all of Phoenix’s federal political money?

No. $181.1 million is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city PHOENIX in AZ. The 2008 slice is $541,556, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles in the same city string are on the Phoenix, AZ hub. 498 is a 2008 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Does the 2008 Phoenix total count only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed PHOENIX with state AZ. Office addresses and joint-fundraising mail that list Phoenix can sit in $541,556 when that is the stored string. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book.

Where do the Phoenix, AZ 2008 numbers come from?

FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates, indexed on LobbyVault: $541,556 and 498 lines for PHOENIX in cycle 2008, and $181.1 million for the city string across cycles. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.