Alameda, CA political money — 2008 cycle

2008 dollars from Alameda, CA donors

Filter one is donor city Alameda, CA (ALAMEDA). Filter two is election cycle 2008. The intersection is $196,432 on 162 itemized rows. Filter one without filter two is $12,811,657. 2008's share of that city stack is 1.53%; other cycles hold $12,615,225 (98.5%). A larger minority of the city stack than many city-cycle joins, still well under half for Alameda in 2008. Those are ratios of two packet facts, not a comparison with other metros.

A city hub for Alameda, CA still includes every even-year window. A cycle hub for 2008 still includes every donor city. Neither hub is this page. The 162 receipts and $196,432 appear only when both the city string and the cycle tag match. Matching columns is not evidence of motive, party, or a local recipient. Committees that received the money can be anywhere the FEC files.

City is a filer-entered field. The 2008 cycle is a presidential two-year FEC window, including a presidential general. The window label does not interpret the $196,432. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Reading the Alameda citywide total

$12,811,657 is the all-cycle city total for ALAMEDA in CA. It is not 2008 alone. Subtract $196,432 and the other-cycle remainder is $12,615,225. California state pages still mix Alameda with every other city in the state. The city total is a sum of itemized individual dollars attached to this city string, not a population count and not unique people.

The stored city is Alameda, the island city in California's East Bay. Alameda County as a whole is not the city string; Oakland, Berkeley, and San Leandro file under their own labels. State CA stays on the citation. Keep the state key: $12,811,657 is CA only. The size of the city stack ($12,811,657) and the size of the 2008 slice ($196,432, 1.53%) answer different questions. Open the city hub for the unfiltered city; open this tie for Alameda in 2008. Recipient location is not donor city.

How FEC tags the 2008 cycle

On FEC.gov, 2008 is a cycle tag spanning two calendar years, not a single January–December cut. Within that tag, Alameda, CA shows $196,432 and 162 itemized gifts. $196,432 divided by 162 is about $1,213 per row. That quotient is not a median, not a typical household, and not a unique-donor average. Unique donors are not in these facts.

Unitemized gifts under the federal itemization threshold never enter this join. Transfers between committees and independent expenditures live on other tables. 162 itemized rows is a sizable absolute count of receipts for this join. The 2008 national cycle page and the California state page remain the wider cuts; this path is only Alameda × 2008.

2008 as a percentage of Alameda

Divide $196,432 by $12,811,657 and 2008 is 1.53% of Alameda, CA's stacked itemized individual dollars. Divide $12,615,225 by $12,811,657 and other cycles are 98.5%. Those identities use only packet facts. They are not Alameda's share of California, not Alameda's share of the 2008 national cycle, and not a turnout statistic.

1.53% (dollars) and 162 (rows) should not be collapsed into one story. This packet has no all-cycle row count, so a row percentage cannot be stated. Treating 1.53% as a national-cycle share would swap the denominator; that national total is not in the facts.

Itemization limits and averages

The page's unit is 162 itemized rows totaling $196,432. Repeat givers, multiple committees, and spelling variants of ALAMEDA can inflate row counts relative to people. This file does not name donors and does not invent a unique-person figure. It also does not rank Alameda among California cities.

$1,213 is $196,432 / 162. Occupation, employer, and committee tables are separate joins. Nothing on this page splits the $196,432 by industry or office. If the receipt city was not ALAMEDA, the dollar is not in this 2008 cell.

Caveats on city-cycle joins

No ranking, no wave language, no inference about California public opinion. Donor city Alameda is not campaign city. A CA receipt address does not imply a California candidate. Later FEC amendments can change $196,432 or $12,811,657. Live hubs override this prose if they differ.

Omitted: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC-to-PAC transfers, and federal spending awards. Cross-links: Alameda, CA; 2008 election cycle; California campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the 2008 FEC total from Alameda, CA?

$196,432 in itemized individual contributions across 162 records. That is the city-cycle join, not the $12,811,657 citywide stack. 2008 is 1.53% of $12,811,657. Source: FEC.gov.

Does $12,811,657 describe only 2008 in Alameda?

No. $12,811,657 is every cycle for ALAMEDA in CA. 2008 alone is $196,432 (162 gifts). The other-cycle remainder is $12,615,225. The city hub holds the stack; this tie holds the 2008 filter.

Were Alameda 2008 gifts limited to California committees?

The facts do not say. Donor city is Alameda, CA. Recipients can be any FEC committee. This page does not split $196,432 by party, office, or committee state. Address field is not a map of California contests.

How many itemized Alameda, CA gifts fell in 2008?

162 rows add to $196,432, about $1,213 per row. Rows are not unique people. Unitemized amounts and independent expenditures are outside this join. No citywide unique-donor count is published here.