Menlo Park, CA political money — 2008 cycle

Menlo Park, CA × 2008 in FEC individual data

Both filters true: city MENLO PARK in CA, cycle 2008, dollars $188,810, rows 186. City filter only: $85,321,855. 2008's share: 0.22%. Other cycles: $85,133,045 (99.8%). A modest slice of the city stack of this city's stacked itemized individual dollars.

A restatement of Menlo Park, CA would still mix years. A restatement of 2008 would still mix cities. 186 and $188,810 live only at the intersection. City plus year is not a causal finding and does not place recipients in California.

2008 is a presidential FEC two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar note does not interpret $188,810. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

City hub dollars for Menlo Park

The city aggregate $85,321,855 is the running itemized individual total for Menlo Park, CA. It contains $188,810 from 2008 and $85,133,045 from other cycles. It is not unique residents. California state pages still mix Menlo Park with other cities.

The stored city is Menlo Park on the San Francisco Peninsula. Atherton, Palo Alto, and Redwood City are not rolled into MENLO PARK. San Mateo County as a whole is not the city string. State CA is required on the key. $85,321,855 is the CA key only. Do not equate the stack ($85,321,855) with the 2008 cell ($188,810, 0.22%). Use the city hub without a year; use this tie for Menlo Park in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city.

Cycle hub context for 2008

On FEC.gov, 2008 labels a two-year cycle, not a single calendar year. Menlo Park, CA inside it: $188,810 on 186 itemized gifts, mean about $1,015. The mean is an arithmetic row average. Median and unique-donor counts are not in the facts.

The 2008 cycle page still includes other cities. California pages still include other cycles. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are other tables. 186 itemized rows is a sizable absolute count of receipts for this join. Adjacent links keep the city, cycle, state, and ties indexes; this URL is the intersection.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $188,810 is the 2008 cell for Menlo Park, CA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 186 records. $85,321,855 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $85,133,045 in other even-year windows. Citing $85,321,855 as a 2008 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $188,810 as the lifetime Menlo Park total mixes the join into the city hub. 186 is cycleContributions for 2008 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 186 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.22% is dollars only — $188,810 divided by $85,321,855 — 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 $188,810 or $85,321,855. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Share math for 2008 inside Menlo Park

0.22% of $85,321,855 is 2008 ($188,810). 99.8% is other cycles ($85,133,045). About 0.22% of Menlo Park, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were tagged 2008; about 99.8% were not. Those identities use packet facts only. They are not state, national-cycle, or voter shares.

0.22% (dollars) and 186 (rows) stay separate. No all-cycle row count is present, so no row share is stated. 0.22% is not Menlo Park's share of the national 2008 cycle.

What itemized rows leave out

186 itemized contributions totaling $188,810 is the working definition. Repeat households and spelling variants of MENLO PARK can appear. Unique-person counts are not invented. Menlo Park is not ranked versus other California cities.

About $1,015 per row uses $188,810 and 186 only. This city-cycle page does not break $188,810 out by occupation, industry, or committee. Receipts typed under another city name are not moved into Menlo Park.

Reading the join without overclaiming

This page does not rank Menlo Park 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 does not mean the money supported a California candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If live hubs disagree, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Menlo Park, CA, the 2008 election cycle, California campaign finance, and all FEC ties. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates, not USAspending awards. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Menlo Park, CA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Menlo Park, CA total $188,810 in the 2008 cycle, across 186 contribution records. The same city label totals $85,321,855 across all cycles, so 2008 is 0.22% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Menlo Park, CA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $85,321,855 covers every cycle in the table for MENLO PARK. The 2008 filter is $188,810 from 186 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $85,133,045. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Menlo Park, CA 2008 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Menlo Park, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $188,810 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field, not a map of California races.

How many Menlo Park, CA contributions were itemized in 2008?

186 itemized contribution records sum to $188,810. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,015 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.