Marietta, GA political money — 2008 cycle

Marietta, GA × 2008 is a presidential city-cycle join

$168,890 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MARIETTA with state GA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $168,890 across 69 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $41,028,369. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.41% of Marietta, GA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $40,859,479 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Marietta, GA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under MARIETTA. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Marietta, GA with every other donor city in the United States. The 69 rows and $168,890 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.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not a Georgia state-campaign total, an Atlanta-suburb ranking, or a Cobb County rollup. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

MARIETTA as a Cobb County address field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city MARIETTA in Georgia totals $41.0 million ($41,028,369). $168,890 is 0.41% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Marietta; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $168,890 to $41,028,369; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $41,028,369 − $168,890 = $40,859,479 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Cobb County, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta. Smyrna, Kennesaw, and Roswell are other FEC city strings, not rolled into MARIETTA. State GA stays on the citation so Marietta is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $41.0 million is the GA 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 69 Marietta 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, Marietta, GA filers itemized $168,890 on 69 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,448 per itemized gift ($168,890 ÷ 69). 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 69-row extract — compact for this suburb string, still a receipt file rather than unique households. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Georgia still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Marietta × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Georgia campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $168,890 into the state hub a second time.

2008 inside the Marietta all-cycle book

0.41% of $41,028,369 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.41% of Marietta, GA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $168,890 divided by $41,028,369 and $40,859,479 divided by $41,028,369. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.41%) and row volume (69 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Atlanta is a neighboring city key. Filers who typed ATLANTA are not recoded into Marietta. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.41% as Marietta’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

69 itemized gifts are not unique donors

69 itemized contributions totaling $168,890 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 MARIETTA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Marietta versus other Georgia cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,448 uses only the two numbers in the join: $168,890 and 69 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 $168,890 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MARIETTA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Marietta.

Caveats on a Marietta–2008 join

This page does not rank Marietta against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Georgia. Two columns matched. A GA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Georgia candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Marietta, GA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. A compact 69-row file can still hide a few large receipts. This page does not publish a median or a top-committee list.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Marietta, GA, the 2008 election cycle, Georgia campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Sandy Springs and Alpharetta are other metro strings. They are not absorbed into MARIETTA. 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 Marietta, GA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Marietta, GA total $168,890 in the 2008 cycle, across 69 contribution records. The same city label totals $41,028,369 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.41% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Marietta’s city book cover only 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $41,028,369 covers every cycle in the table for MARIETTA. The 2008 filter is $168,890 from 69 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $40,859,479. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 Marietta itemized gifts stay with Georgia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Marietta, GA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $168,890 by office, state of the committee, or party. A GA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Georgia races.

How many Marietta, GA contributions were itemized in 2008?

69 itemized contribution records sum to $168,890. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,448 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.