Tampa, FL political money — 2008 cycle

A presidential election cycle filtered to Tampa, FL

Presidential cycles include a presidential general election; midterm cycles do not. That is a calendar classification, not a finding about Tampa voters. $145,865 is still just the itemized overlap of TAMPA and 2008. 131 rows is a mid-size itemized file. Mean size is about $1,113. None of those facts explains why filers gave.

Relative to $101,922,580, 2008 is 0.14% (a thin slice of the citywide book). The other 99.9% of the city book, $101,776,715, sits in other even-year windows. Percentages here use the city aggregate only. National cycle totals are not in the packet.

Geography stored as TAMPA

Tampa sits in Hillsborough County, Florida. St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Orlando are other Florida city fields. Filers type the city. LobbyVault does not recode a suburb into a central city or a neighborhood into a Census place. A donor who typed a nearby name is not in $145,865 even if mail service looks similar.

The Tampa, FL hub remains the all-cycle view ($101,922,580). Florida campaign finance remains the state view. The 2008 election cycle remains the national two-year view. This tie page is the filter where those stories meet.

Recipient location is not in these facts. Money itemized from a FL city can support committees that file from other states. Do not read $145,865 as a map of Florida races.

Itemized only

Both $145,865 and $101,922,580 omit unitemized gifts. They omit independent expenditures. They omit state-office campaigns. They omit federal awards. Mixing any of those tables with this join invents a headline FEC.gov did not publish.

131 is a line count. Repeat contributors add lines. Unique-donor census figures are not here and are not estimated. All FEC ties points to other city-cycle intersections built from the same method.

Correlation is not causation

Placing Tampa next to 2008 does not mean the city caused the cycle or the cycle caused the city book. Two columns matched. Amended filings can move the dollars. If live hubs disagree with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls. Source: FEC.gov.

Itemization is a threshold rule, not a taste judgment. Gifts that never reached the FEC itemization line never enter $145,865 and never enter $101,922,580. Independent expenditures are disclosed on other forms. Committee-to-committee transfers are another table. State-office campaigns in Florida file under state law. USAspending obligations are a different statute. Stacking any of those omitted tables onto $145,865 would publish a total the Commission did not publish for this city-cycle join.

Doors out of the Tampa × 2008 page

Use Tampa, FL for the city without a year filter, the 2008 election cycle for the national window, Florida campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Those four links are the intended next steps. This file does not list donor names or award recipients.

Operational definition: contributor city TAMPA in FL during election cycle 2008 equals $145,865 across 131 itemized individual contribution records. The same city label across every cycle in this extract equals $101,922,580. Subtracting the cycle from the book leaves $101,776,715 in other even-year windows. Those three dollar figures and the row count are the entire numeric inventory for this page. FEC.gov is the source. No donor names, committee IDs, occupation strings, or award recipients appear in the packet, so none are invented in this prose.

The Tampa, FL city hub, the 2008 election cycle hub, Florida campaign finance, and All FEC ties are the four internal doors. The city hub answers the all-cycle question ($101,922,580). The cycle hub answers the national two-year question. The state hub answers the Florida roll-up, which already contains Tampa when the same extract is used. All FEC ties lists sibling city-cycle pages. This URL is only the intersection of TAMPA and 2008.

Questions

How much did Tampa, FL donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Tampa, FL total $145,865 in the 2008 cycle, across 131 contribution records. The same city label totals $101,922,580 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.14% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Tampa, FL city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $101,922,580 covers every cycle in the table for TAMPA. The 2008 filter is $145,865 from 131 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $101,776,715. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Tampa, FL 2008 donations stay in Florida?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Tampa, FL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $145,865 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 Tampa, FL contributions were itemized in 2008?

131 itemized contribution records sum to $145,865. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,113 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.