Why does Riverside, CA have a separate 2008 page?

Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Riverside, CA across cycles is $28,376,398. 2008 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city RIVERSIDE in CA during cycle 2008: $156,547 across 166 itemized receipts.

Can I add $156,547 to the California state total?

Do not add it a second time. California campaign-finance pages already include Riverside when the same extract is used. Double-counting $156,547 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.

What does the 2008 cycle tag mean for Riverside?

2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Riverside, CA donors itemized $156,547 on 166 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.

Does this page name Riverside committees or donors?

No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

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Riverside, CA political money — 2008 cycle

Dividing $156,547 by 166 Riverside, CA itemized receipts in cycle 2008 yields a mean of about $943 per line. That ratio is a description of the join, not a typical donor. The same FEC.gov extract stores $28,376,398 for contributor city RIVERSIDE across every cycle in the table. 2008 is a presidential election cycle.

Key figures

The join key is city RIVERSIDE plus cycle 2008: $156,547 and 166 rows.
Riverside, CA citywide (all cycles) is $28,376,398; remainder outside 2008 is $28,219,851.
Committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.
Amended reports can move either dollar figure; the newer FEC extract controls.
See Riverside, CA, the 2008 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties.

Mean size versus the 2008 total for Riverside

$943 uses only two packet numbers: $156,547 and 166 rows. Large itemizations pull the mean up; small itemized gifts pull it down. The packet has no median, no unique-donor count, and no household income field. Reporting the mean without those caveats would overclaim. 166 is a mid-size itemized file.

The headline dollar remains $156,547, the overlap of city RIVERSIDE and cycle 2008. Relative to the $28,376,398 city book, that is 0.55% — a thin slice of the citywide book. Other cycles hold $28,219,851 (99.4%). Share of dollars is not share of rows; a citywide row count is not in these facts.

FEC individual contribution files are Schedule A itemizations. Unitemized gifts below the threshold never enter $156,547. Independent expenditures never enter it. Committee-to-committee transfers are another table. This page does not invent donor names or contractor names.

City string RIVERSIDE in California

Riverside sits in Riverside County, California. Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Corona are other city fields, not parents of this total. The stored value is the filer-entered city on the receipt, not a geocoder's preferred place name. $28,376,398 covers that string across cycles. California campaign finance still mixes Riverside with every other city in the state.

Keep CA on the key. Same-named places in other states are different FEC rows. Donor city is not recipient city: a CA address does not prove the committee was a California campaign.

Cycle 2008 as a two-year FEC tag

The 2008 election cycle is a Commission tag, a presidential election cycle, not a January-to-December cash diary. Inside that window, Riverside, CA produced $156,547 on 166 lines. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. This URL isolates one geography.

All FEC ties collects other joins built the same way. None of those pages turns $156,547 into federal award obligations. FEC receipts and USAspending awards share neither a form nor a statute.

Limits of an arithmetic join

Do not rank Riverside against other cities from this file. Do not call 2008 a wave. Amended reports can revise $156,547 or $28,376,398. Internal links: Riverside, CA, 2008 election cycle, California campaign finance, All FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Source note, restated: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Original reports remain on the Commission site. LobbyVault indexes the join so a reader can hold $156,547 for Riverside, CA in 2008 without mistaking it for the $28,376,398 city book. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

What stays outside the packet

Occupation, industry, committee ID, and party are not in these facts. Unique residents are not in these facts. State-office money is not in these facts. The operational definition of this page is 166 itemized contributions totaling $156,547 for Riverside, CA in 2008, against a citywide itemized book of $28,376,398.

Dollar share (0.55%) and row volume (166) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a mid-size itemized 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 0.55% as Riverside's share of the 2008 national cycle.

Occupation, industry, and committee cuts of $156,547 are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the 166 receipts by employer, occupation, party, or recipient. Inventing those breakdowns would go beyond the facts. The only names on this page are the stored city string RIVERSIDE, the state CA, and the cycle year 2008.

A candidate who lives in Riverside can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. A candidate who lives elsewhere can raise money from Riverside; those gifts are this join when the contributor city stored RIVERSIDE. Residence of the candidate is not a field in this packet. $156,547 is contributor geography in cycle 2008, nothing else.

Questions

Why does Riverside, CA have a separate 2008 page?: Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Riverside, CA across cycles is $28,376,398. 2008 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city RIVERSIDE in CA during cycle 2008: $156,547 across 166 itemized receipts.
Can I add $156,547 to the California state total?: Do not add it a second time. California campaign-finance pages already include Riverside when the same extract is used. Double-counting $156,547 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.
What does the 2008 cycle tag mean for Riverside?: 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Riverside, CA donors itemized $156,547 on 166 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.
Does this page name Riverside committees or donors?: No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.