Newport Beach, CA political money — 2008 cycle

2008 receipts from Newport Beach, CA donors

The join keeps donor city Newport Beach in California and election cycle 2008. The match is $358,189 across 153 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $91,059,268. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.4% of Newport Beach, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $90,701,079 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Newport Beach, CA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under NEWPORT BEACH. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Newport Beach, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 153 rows and $358,189 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, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Newport Beach, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as NEWPORT BEACH in CA. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $358,189 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Newport Beach, CA is $91,059,268 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 $358,189 from 2008 and the $90,701,079 from every other cycle in the same city file. California campaign-finance pages still mix Newport Beach with every other city in California.

The stored city sits in Orange County, California. Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Costa Mesa are not rolled into NEWPORT BEACH. State CA stays on the citation so Newport Beach is not merged with Newport, Rhode Island or another Newport string. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Newport Beach, CA, the city stack is $91,059,268 while this cycle is $358,189 (0.4%). Use the city hub to see Newport Beach, CA without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Newport Beach in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2008 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Newport Beach, CA donors itemized $358,189 on 153 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,341 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. 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 Newport Beach × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 153 itemized rows is a modest file for a named city. A handful of large receipts can still move $358,189 without proving a wide unique-donor pool. Adjacent pages for Newport Beach, CA, 2008 election cycle, and California campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

A modest cut of the Newport Beach stack

0.4% of $91,059,268 is a modest slice. Most of the Newport Beach, CA aggregate — $90,701,079 — sits in other cycles. Put another way, about 0.4% of Newport Beach, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $358,189 divided by $91,059,268 and $90,701,079 divided by $91,059,268. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.4%) and row volume (153 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A modest slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a modest contribution 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 0.4% as Newport Beach's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

153 itemized contributions totaling $358,189 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 NEWPORT BEACH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Newport Beach versus other California cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,341 uses only the two numbers in the join: $358,189 and 153 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 $358,189 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside $358,189.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

This page does not rank Newport Beach 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. A candidate who lives in Newport Beach can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed NEWPORT BEACH is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood or a nearby suburb such as Irvine is not recoded into Newport Beach. Treat 153 as lines that stored this string in 2008. See Newport Beach, CA, the 2008 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Newport Beach, CA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Newport Beach, CA total $358,189 in the 2008 cycle, across 153 contribution records. The same city label totals $91,059,268 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.4% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Newport Beach, CA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $91,059,268 covers every cycle in the table for NEWPORT BEACH. The 2008 filter is $358,189 from 153 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $90,701,079. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Newport Beach, CA 2008 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Newport Beach, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $358,189 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 Newport Beach, CA contributions were itemized in 2008?

153 itemized contribution records sum to $358,189. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,341 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.