Honolulu, HI political money — 2008 cycle

Honolulu in 2008: the intersection number

$194,619 appears only when donor city is HONOLULU in HI and the cycle is 2008. 204 itemized rows accompany that dollar figure. The unmatched city total is $78,939,472. 2008 holds 0.25% of it; other even-year windows hold $78,744,853 (99.8%). Call that a modest slice of the city stack — a description of this ratio, not of other cities.

Restating the Honolulu, HI hub would mix years. Restating the 2008 hub would mix cities. This page keeps both constraints. Intersection is not causation. The facts do not say why people gave, which committees they chose, or whether those committees were in Hawaii.

2008 is a presidential FEC cycle (two-year window; presidential general included). Window type does not explain $194,619. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Citywide Honolulu, HI dollars

$78,939,472 is the city label across cycles. $194,619 is nested inside it; $78,744,853 is the rest. Neither number is unique residents. Hawaii finance pages still list every city in the state, not only Honolulu.

The stored city is Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu County as a whole is not necessarily the city string; Kailua, Pearl City, and other Oahu labels file separately if donors typed those names. State HI is required on the key. The HI key is mandatory: $78,939,472 is not a national homonym total. City stack $78,939,472 versus cycle cell $194,619 (0.25%) should stay distinct. Drop the year on the city hub; keep 2008 here. Recipient city can differ from Honolulu.

The 2008 cycle tag explained

Cycle 2008 on FEC.gov is two years wide. In that span Honolulu, HI shows $194,619 and 204 itemized gifts. $194,619 / 204 ≈ $954. That is a row mean. Median and unique-donor counts are not in the packet.

Other cities remain on the 2008 cycle hub. Other years remain on Hawaii and Honolulu hubs. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. 204 itemized rows is a large absolute count of receipts for this join. Follow internal links for the wider tables; this slug is the pair only.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $194,619 is the 2008 cell for Honolulu, HI: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 204 records. $78,939,472 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $78,744,853 in other even-year windows. Citing $78,939,472 as a 2008 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $194,619 as the lifetime Honolulu total mixes the join into the city hub. 204 is cycleContributions for 2008 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 204 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.25% is dollars only — $194,619 divided by $78,939,472 — not a share of Hawaii 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 $194,619 or $78,939,472. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

0.25% of Honolulu is 2008

0.25% is $194,619 as a share of $78,939,472. 99.8% is $78,744,853 as a share of $78,939,472. About 0.25% of Honolulu, HI itemized individual dollars in this aggregate are 2008; about 99.8% are not. Those are city-stack shares only.

Do not blend 0.25% with 204 into a single ranking. There is no all-cycle row total here, so no row percentage. 0.25% is not a share of national 2008 receipts; that denominator is missing from the facts.

Counts the packet does not contain

204 itemized contributions totaling $194,619 define the cell. Multiple dates, multiple committees, and variants of HONOLULU can repeat households. Unique people are not estimated. Honolulu is not ranked among Hawaii cities.

$954 comes from $194,619 and 204 alone. No occupation or committee split of the $194,619 appears here. Receipts that used another city string are out, even in the same metro.

How to use this ties URL

This write-up does not rank Honolulu, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as Hawaii public opinion. Contributor geography is not campaign geography. HI on an individual receipt is not a promise the money stayed in Hawaii. Amendments can revise totals. Live hubs control if they differ.

Omitted tables: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, USAspending. See Honolulu, HI; 2008 election cycle; Hawaii campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much FEC money from Honolulu, HI is tagged 2008?

$194,619 in itemized individual contributions (204 records). The all-cycle city total is $78,939,472, so 2008 is 0.25% of that stack. Source: FEC.gov city-and-cycle aggregates.

What is the difference between $194,619 and $78,939,472?

$194,619 is Honolulu, HI in 2008 only (204 gifts). $78,939,472 is HONOLULU across every cycle in the table. The gap, $78,744,853, is other cycles. City hub versus this tie page.

Did Honolulu 2008 donors give only inside Hawaii?

The join does not say. Donor city is Honolulu, HI; committees can be anywhere. $194,619 is not allocated by office, party, or committee state. A HI city field is not a Hawaii race map.

How many itemized rows are in the Honolulu 2008 cell?

204 rows sum to $194,619 (about $954 per row). Rows ≠ unique donors. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are not in the 204. Unique-donor totals are not in these facts.