Malibu, CA political money — 2008 cycle

How Malibu, CA meets the 2008 election cycle

$308,101 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MALIBU with state CA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $308,101 across 151 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $32,934,834. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.94% of Malibu, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $32,626,733 (99.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Malibu, CA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under MALIBU. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Malibu, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 151 rows and $308,101 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

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. Malibu, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as MALIBU in CA. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Malibu, CA donors itemized $308,101. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Malibu, CA side of the join

The city aggregate for Malibu, CA is $32,934,834 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 $308,101 from 2008 and the $32,626,733 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Malibu with every other city in California.

The stored city sits in Los Angeles County, California, along the Santa Monica Bay coast. Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, and Los Angeles are not rolled into MALIBU. State CA stays on the citation so Malibu is not merged into a county-wide Los Angeles key. $32,934,834 is the CA key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Malibu, CA, the city stack is $32,934,834 while this cycle is $308,101 (0.94%). Use the city hub to see Malibu, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Malibu in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for California filers in Malibu

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, Malibu, CA donors itemized $308,101 on 151 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,040 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 California still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Malibu × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 151 itemized rows is a modest file. Adjacent pages for Malibu, CA, 2008 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Malibu

0.94% of $32,934,834 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $32,626,733. Put another way, about 0.94% of Malibu, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.1% were not. Those percentages are $308,101 divided by $32,934,834 and $32,626,733 divided by $32,934,834. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.94%) and row volume (151 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.94% as Malibu's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

151 itemized contributions totaling $308,101 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 MALIBU. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Malibu versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,040 uses only the two numbers in the join: $308,101 and 151 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 city-cycle page does not break the $308,101 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MALIBU is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Malibu.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Malibu against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in California. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A CA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Malibu, CA 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 Malibu, CA, the 2008 election cycle, California 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 Malibu, CA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Malibu, CA total $308,101 in the 2008 cycle, across 151 contribution records. The same city label totals $32,934,834 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.94% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Malibu, CA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $32,934,834 covers every cycle in the table for MALIBU. The 2008 filter is $308,101 from 151 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $32,626,733. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Malibu, CA 2008 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Malibu, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $308,101 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of California races.

How many Malibu, CA contributions were itemized in 2008?

151 itemized contribution records sum to $308,101. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,040 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.