Pasadena, CA political money — 2008 cycle

Reading Pasadena against cycle 2008

$355,469 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PASADENA with state CA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $355,469 across 203 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $69,184,320. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.51% of Pasadena, CA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $68,828,851 (99.49%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Pasadena, CA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under PASADENA. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Pasadena, CA with every other donor city in the United States. The 203 rows and $355,469 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

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. Pasadena, CA here is the string that survived aggregation as PASADENA 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 Pasadena, CA donors itemized $355,469. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Pasadena's city aggregate, without a year filter

The city aggregate for Pasadena, CA is $69,184,320 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 $355,469 from 2008 and the $68,828,851 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level CA campaign-finance pages still mix Pasadena with every other city in CA.

The stored city is the City of Pasadena in Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles, Glendale, and Altadena are not rolled into PASADENA. State CA stays on the citation so Pasadena, CA is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $69,184,320 is the CA key only. For Pasadena, CA, the city stack is $69,184,320 while this cycle is $355,469 (0.51%). Use the city hub for Pasadena, CA without a year filter; use this tie for Pasadena in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. PASADENA in CA is not merged with Pasadena, TX.

Isolating Pasadena inside the 2008 cycle hub

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, Pasadena, CA donors itemized $355,469 on 203 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,751 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 CA still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Pasadena × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A suburb-scale row file (203 receipts) with mean near $1,751 is still itemized Schedule A, not a property-tax roll. $355,469 is the overlap only. Nearby city strings are other pages. This URL is the intersection only.

Where $355,469 sits inside $69.2 million

0.51% of $69,184,320 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.51% of Pasadena, CA's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.49% were not. Those percentages are $355,469 divided by $69,184,320 and $68,828,851 divided by $69,184,320. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.51%) and row volume (203 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.51% as Pasadena's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Los Angeles County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $355,469.

Schedule A city strings and missing tables

203 itemized contributions totaling $355,469 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 PASADENA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Pasadena versus other CA cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,751 uses only the two numbers in the join: $355,469 and 203 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 page does not break $355,469 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PASADENA is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Pasadena.

Citing this pair on FEC.gov terms

This page does not rank Pasadena against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in CA. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A CA address does not mean the money supported a CA candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Pasadena, 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 Pasadena, 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 Pasadena, CA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Pasadena, CA total $355,469 in the 2008 cycle, across 203 contribution records. The same city label totals $69,184,320 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.51% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Pasadena, CA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $69,184,320 covers every cycle in the table for PASADENA. The 2008 filter is $355,469 from 203 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $68,828,851. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Pasadena, CA 2008 donations stay in CA?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Pasadena, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $355,469 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of CA races.

How many Pasadena, CA contributions were itemized in 2008?

203 itemized contribution records sum to $355,469. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,751 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.