What is the Darien and 2008 join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of contributor city DARIEN with state CT and election cycle 2008: $147,037 on 137 itemized receipts. The Darien, CT hub still mixes other cycles ($39,856,288 citywide). The 2008 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.

Does $147,037 include unitemized Darien gifts?

No. $147,037 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city DARIEN in cycle 2008. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $39,856,288 is also an itemized aggregate.

Is $1,073 a typical Darien donor in 2008?

No. $1,073 is $147,037 divided by 137 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Darien, CT.

Where should I read Darien without a 2008 filter?

Open the Darien, CT city hub for the $39,856,288 all-cycle book. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open Connecticut campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.

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Darien, CT political money — 2008 cycle

137 itemized FEC receipts listing contributor city DARIEN in CT sum to $147,037 in the 2008 presidential election cycle. That receipt file is the city-cycle join on LobbyVault, not the Darien, CT all-cycle book of $39,856,288 and not a national 2008 total. Source: FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates indexed by donor city and election cycle.

Key figures

FEC.gov records $147,037 from contributor city DARIEN in cycle 2008 (137 receipts).
Other cycles under the same Darien, CT label hold $39,709,251 of the $39,856,288 city book.
2008 is a presidential election cycle; that calendar fact does not explain $147,037.
137 is a row count, not a headcount of Darien residents.
FEC itemized receipts are not USAspending awards.

$147,037 is a join, not a restatement of Darien

LobbyVault stores $147,037 so a reader can open the Darien, CT city hub and the 2008 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles ($39,856,288). The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Darien, CT in 2008.

137 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,073 ($147,037 ÷ 137). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join.

2008 is a presidential election cycle. Cite the two packet dollars — $147,037 for the 2008 slice and $39,856,288 for the Darien, CT book — and stop before assigning motive. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Reading the Darien, CT city book

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city DARIEN in Connecticut totals $39,856,288. $147,037 is 0.37% of that city book — a thin slice of the citywide book. A thin or small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Darien; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The live Darien, CT table is the place to compare other years.

Darien sits in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Darien, Illinois is a different state key; New Canaan and Stamford are other Connecticut strings. State CT stays on the citation so Darien is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $39,856,288 is the CT key only. Remainder outside 2008 is $39,709,251.

What the 2008 cycle tag actually is

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 137 Darien, CT lines in that window produced $147,037. National 2008 activity — every city — lives on the 2008 election cycle hub, not here.

Connecticut campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Darien. Do not add $147,037 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle joins.

What $147,037 does not measure

$147,037 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city DARIEN. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Connecticut file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Darien can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered.

A donor who typed DARIEN is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Darien. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place. Treat 137 as lines that stored this string in 2008. FEC receipts are not USAspending awards.

Using Darien and 2008 without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $147,037 beside $39,856,288 does not mean 2008 caused the city book or that Darien drove the 2008 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. Internal links go to Darien, CT, the 2008 election cycle, Connecticut campaign finance, and All FEC ties. If a live hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

137 is a receipt count for Darien, CT in 2008, a mid-size itemized file. A household that gave on two dates is two lines. An office or joint-fundraising address stored as DARIEN sits in the same city field as a residential street. LobbyVault does not convert that field into a Census residency test. Unique-person counts are not in the facts and are not estimated from 137. Mean size of about $1,073 is $147,037 divided by 137, an arithmetic ratio, not a median donor.

Questions

What is the Darien and 2008 join on LobbyVault?: It is the overlap of contributor city DARIEN with state CT and election cycle 2008: $147,037 on 137 itemized receipts. The Darien, CT hub still mixes other cycles ($39,856,288 citywide). The 2008 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.
Does $147,037 include unitemized Darien gifts?: No. $147,037 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city DARIEN in cycle 2008. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $39,856,288 is also an itemized aggregate.
Is $1,073 a typical Darien donor in 2008?: No. $1,073 is $147,037 divided by 137 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Darien, CT.
Where should I read Darien without a 2008 filter?: Open the Darien, CT city hub for the $39,856,288 all-cycle book. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open Connecticut campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.

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