Fresno, CA political money — 2008 cycle

How 2008 sits inside Fresno, CA

Start with the intersection: $208,456 from 159 itemized rows where city = FRESNO (CA) and cycle = 2008. The city dimension without the year is $46,129,402. 0.45% of that stack is 2008; 99.5% ($45,920,946) is not. A modest slice of the city stack of Fresno's own dollars.

The Fresno, CA hub still folds in other even-year windows. The 2008 hub still folds in other cities. This ties slug keeps both. Matching a city string to a cycle tag does not prove intent, ideology, or a California recipient committee.

2008 is filed as a presidential two-year FEC cycle that contains a presidential general. The cycle type does not explain $208,456. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What $46,129,402 includes

$46,129,402 is every cycle under Fresno, CA in this extract, including $208,456 from 2008 and $45,920,946 from the rest. It is not a headcount. California pages still show cities besides Fresno.

The stored city is Fresno in California's Central Valley. Clovis, Madera, and Visalia are not rolled into FRESNO. State CA stays on the citation so Fresno, CA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Keep CA on the key so $46,129,402 is not mixed with a homonym. Stack $46,129,402 and slice $208,456 (0.45%) are different facts. City hub for the unfiltered city; this page for Fresno in 2008. Recipients need not be in Fresno or in California.

FEC cycle 2008 with a Fresno filter

A federal cycle is two years. 2008 is the tag, not a January-only sample. Fresno, CA in that window: $208,456, 159 records, about $1,311 per record. The mean is dollars divided by rows. No median. No unique-donor count.

National 2008 coverage still lists other cities; California coverage still lists other years. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are other tables. 159 itemized rows is a sizable absolute count of receipts for this join. Linked city, cycle, state, and ties pages hold the broader views.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $208,456 is the 2008 cell for Fresno, CA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 159 records. $46,129,402 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $45,920,946 in other even-year windows. Citing $46,129,402 as a 2008 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $208,456 as the lifetime Fresno total mixes the join into the city hub. 159 is cycleContributions for 2008 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 159 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.45% is dollars only — $208,456 divided by $46,129,402 — not a share of California and not a share of the national 2008 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $208,456 or $46,129,402. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

2008 versus other Fresno cycles

0.45% = $208,456 / $46,129,402; 99.5% = $45,920,946 / $46,129,402. About 0.45% of Fresno, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate carry cycle 2008; about 99.5% do not. Those percentages are not shares of California, the national 2008 cycle, or eligible voters.

Dollar share 0.45% and row count 159 are not interchangeable. The packet has no all-cycle row total, so a row percentage is not computed. 0.45% is not Fresno's share of nationwide 2008 itemized receipts.

Arithmetic mean and missing medians

159 itemized contributions totaling $208,456 is the cell. Repeat gifts and FRESNO spelling variants can occur. Unique people are not counted. Fresno is not ranked against other California cities.

$1,311 uses $208,456 and 159 only. Occupation and committee joins are separate. The $208,456 is not listed by recipient. Other city strings in the same metro are other pages.

Source limits and adjacent pages

No ranking of Fresno, no wave label for 2008, no proxy for California opinion. Contributor city is not campaign city. A CA receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amendments can change $208,456 or $46,129,402. Prefer live hubs if they disagree.

Not in this file: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, federal spending awards. See Fresno, CA; 2008 election cycle; California campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What is the 2008 itemized total from Fresno, CA?

$208,456 in FEC itemized individual contributions, 159 records. The all-cycle city figure is $46,129,402, so 2008 is 0.45% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov.

Is $46,129,402 the amount Fresno gave in 2008?

No. $46,129,402 covers every cycle for FRESNO in CA. 2008 is $208,456 (159 gifts). Other cycles hold $45,920,946. Use the city hub for the stack and this page for 2008.

Did 2008 gifts from Fresno go to California campaigns only?

The facts do not allocate recipients. Donor city is Fresno, CA. Committees can be anywhere the FEC files. $208,456 is not split by office, party, or committee state.

How should readers treat the 159 contribution count?

As 159 itemized rows summing to $208,456, about $1,311 per row. Not unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. No unique-person total is in the packet.