Santa Ana, CA political money — 2008 cycle

Joining Santa Ana, CA to the 2008 cycle

$195,232 is the match: SANTA ANA + CA + 2008, 111 itemized rows. $32,596,978 is the city without a year filter. 0.60% of the city stack sits in 2008; 99.4% ($32,401,746) sits elsewhere. That is a modest slice of the city stack for this pair. The percentage uses only $195,232 and $32,596,978.

Do not substitute the Santa Ana, CA hub or the 2008 cycle hub for this URL. The hub for the city blends cycles; the hub for the cycle blends cities. Only the intersection carries 111 rows and $195,232. A join is not a causal story. It does not identify recipients as local to California and does not explain why the gifts were made.

Receipt city is whatever the filer typed. The 2008 tag is presidential (presidential general inside the window). Calendar type is not an explanation of $195,232. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city table for SANTA ANA

Stack every cycle for Santa Ana, CA and the packet reports $32,596,978. 2008 contributes $195,232; the complement is $32,401,746. That stack is itemized individual money on this city string, not a count of Santa Ana residents and not a unique-donor census. California pages still include cities other than Santa Ana.

The stored city is Santa Ana, the Orange County seat in California. Anaheim, Irvine, and Santa Ana in another state are not rolled into SANTA ANA in CA. County-level labels are not this city string. $32,596,978 belongs to the CA key. City size and cycle size are independent facts: $32,596,978 citywide, $195,232 in 2008 (0.60%). The city hub drops the year; this tie keeps both filters. Money received by committees is not constrained to Santa Ana or to California.

2008 as an FEC two-year cycle

FEC cycles last two years. 2008 on a receipt is that window, not a single tax year. Inside it, Santa Ana, CA itemized $195,232 on 111 records, a mean of about $1,759. The mean is $195,232 ÷ 111 rows. Median and unique-donor counts are absent from the packet and are omitted.

National 2008 pages still list other cities. California pages still list other cycles. This join is Santa Ana × 2008 only. Unitemized amounts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are out of scope. 111 itemized rows is a moderate absolute count of receipts for this join. Use the linked city, cycle, state, and ties indexes for the adjacent tables.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $195,232 is the 2008 cell for Santa Ana, CA: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 111 records. $32,596,978 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $32,401,746 in other even-year windows. Citing $32,596,978 as a 2008 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $195,232 as the lifetime Santa Ana total mixes the join into the city hub. 111 is cycleContributions for 2008 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 111 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.60% is dollars only — $195,232 divided by $32,596,978 — 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 $195,232 or $32,596,978. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Other cycles versus 2008 in Santa Ana

0.60% equals $195,232 / $32,596,978. 99.4% equals $32,401,746 / $32,596,978. About 0.60% of Santa Ana, CA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were tagged 2008; about 99.4% were not. Those shares are not state shares, not national-cycle shares, and not voter shares.

Keep dollar share and row count apart: 0.60% versus 111 gifts. No all-cycle row total is in the packet, so a row share is not stated. 0.60% is not Santa Ana's slice of the nationwide 2008 cycle; that nationwide total is not a fact here.

What {n} rows can and cannot mean

111 × itemized receipts = $195,232 for this definition. Households can appear more than once. Spellings of SANTA ANA can fragment or duplicate. Unique people are not counted. Santa Ana is not ranked against other California places on this page.

About $1,759 per row is an arithmetic mean only. Occupation and industry joins are elsewhere. The $195,232 is not broken out by committee. If the city field was not SANTA ANA, the gift is outside this cell even if the donor lived nearby.

Limits of a geographic-cycle match

The page does not rank cities, does not label 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized receipts as California opinion. Contributor city ≠ campaign city. A CA address does not equal a California candidate. Amendments can revise either aggregate. Prefer a newer FEC extract if hubs disagree.

Left out: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, USAspending awards. See Santa Ana, CA; 2008 election cycle; California campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Santa Ana donors itemize in 2008?

$195,232 from 111 itemized individual contribution records listing Santa Ana, CA. The all-cycle city total is $32,596,978, so 2008 is 0.60% of that stack. FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates are the source.

Is $32,596,978 the 2008 figure for Santa Ana, CA?

No. $32,596,978 is all cycles for SANTA ANA. 2008 is $195,232 on 111 gifts; other cycles are $32,401,746. Use the city hub for the stack and this ties URL for the 2008 cut.

Did 2008 money from Santa Ana fund only California races?

Unknown from these facts. Donor city is Santa Ana, CA. Recipients may be anywhere in the FEC system. $195,232 is not split by office, party, or committee state on this page.

What does 111 contributions mean for Santa Ana in 2008?

It means 111 itemized rows totaling $195,232, about $1,759 each as an arithmetic mean. It does not mean 111 unique people. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. No unique-donor census is in the packet.