Coral Gables, FL political money — 2008 cycle

Coral Gables, FL × 2008 is a presidential city-cycle join

$166,350 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CORAL GABLES with state FL, and election cycle 2008. The match is $166,350 across 136 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $67,499,133. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.25% of Coral Gables, FL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $67,332,783 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Coral Gables, FL. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under CORAL GABLES. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Coral Gables, FL with every other donor city in the United States. The 136 rows and $166,350 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.

CORAL GABLES in 2008 is still not Miami

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city CORAL GABLES in Florida totals $67.5 million ($67,499,133). $166,350 is 0.25% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Coral Gables; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $166,350 to $67,499,133; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $67,499,133 − $166,350 = $67,332,783 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Pinecrest, South Miami, and Key Biscayne are other FEC city strings; they are not rolled into CORAL GABLES. State FL stays on the citation so Coral Gables is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $67.5 million is the FL key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 two-year window on Coral Gables lines

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Coral Gables, FL filers itemized $166,350 on 136 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,223 per itemized gift ($166,350 ÷ 136). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 136-row extract for 2008 — a mid-size receipt file on this city string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Florida still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Coral Gables × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Florida campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $166,350 into the state hub a second time.

2008 versus later Coral Gables even-year tags

0.25% of $67,499,133 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.25% of Coral Gables, FL’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $166,350 divided by $67,499,133 and $67,332,783 divided by $67,499,133. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.25%) and row volume (136 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This 2008 page is not the 2012 Coral Gables join. Adding the two slices still leaves other cycles in the all-cycle book. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.25% as Coral Gables’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

136 rows omit independent-expenditure tables

136 itemized contributions totaling $166,350 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 CORAL GABLES. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Coral Gables versus other Florida cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,223 uses only the two numbers in the join: $166,350 and 136 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 $166,350 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed CORAL GABLES is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Coral Gables.

What Coral Gables–2008 cannot support

This page does not rank Coral Gables against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Florida. Two columns matched. A FL address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Florida candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Coral Gables, FL hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A presidential 2008 label does not name a presidential committee. Recipients are unpublished here.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Coral Gables, FL, the 2008 election cycle, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Miami Beach remains a different city key. It is not absorbed into CORAL GABLES. 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 Coral Gables, FL donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Coral Gables, FL total $166,350 in the 2008 cycle, across 136 contribution records. The same city label totals $67,499,133 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.25% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Coral Gables’ city aggregate cover only 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $67,499,133 covers every cycle in the table for CORAL GABLES. The 2008 filter is $166,350 from 136 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $67,332,783. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 Coral Gables itemized gifts stay with Florida candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Coral Gables, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $166,350 by office, state of the committee, or party. A FL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Florida races.

How many Coral Gables, FL contributions were itemized in 2008?

136 itemized contribution records sum to $166,350. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,223 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.