Flossmoor, IL political money — 2008 cycle

2008 receipts from Flossmoor, IL donors

The join keeps donor city Flossmoor in Illinois and election cycle 2008. The match is $216,327 across 55 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $24,863,074. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.9% of Flossmoor, IL itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $24,646,747 (99.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Flossmoor, IL. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under FLOSSMOOR. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Flossmoor, IL with every other donor city in the United States. The 55 rows and $216,327 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Flossmoor, IL here is the string that survived aggregation as FLOSSMOOR in IL. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $216,327 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Flossmoor, IL is $24,863,074 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $216,327 from 2008 and the $24,646,747 from every other cycle in the same city file. Illinois campaign-finance pages still mix Flossmoor with every other city in Illinois.

The stored city sits in Cook County, Illinois. Homewood, Chicago Heights, and Olympia Fields are not rolled into FLOSSMOOR except as noted: those south-suburb neighbors are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into FLOSSMOOR. State IL stays on the citation. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Flossmoor, IL, the city stack is $24,863,074 while this cycle is $216,327 (0.9%). Use the city hub to see Flossmoor, IL without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Flossmoor in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2008 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Flossmoor, IL donors itemized $216,327 on 55 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $3,933 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Illinois still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Flossmoor × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 55 itemized rows is a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same stack.

A modest cut of the Flossmoor stack

0.9% of $24,863,074 is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $216,327 of the $24,863,074 city stack was tagged 2008, and $24,646,747 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $216,327 divided by $24,863,074 and $24,646,747 divided by $24,863,074. They are not shares of Illinois totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.9%) and row volume (55 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.9% as Flossmoor's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Flossmoor × 2008 only: $216,327, 55 receipts, mean about $3,933. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

See Flossmoor, IL, the 2008 election cycle, Illinois campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

This overlay exists so a searcher asking about Flossmoor, IL in 2008 gets the join instead of a generic city or cycle restatement. Quote $216,327, 55, and $24,863,074 as a set. Quoting only one of them drops a filter.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

0-for-national: this packet has no national 2008 dollar total, so Flossmoor, IL cannot be expressed as a percent of the United States. 0.9% is city-internal. 55 is city-and-cycle. Mean $3,933 is city-and-cycle.

Adjacent pages for Flossmoor, IL, 2008 election cycle, and Illinois campaign finance keep the broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

How much did Flossmoor, IL donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Flossmoor, IL total $216,327 in the 2008 cycle, across 55 contribution records. The same city label totals $24,863,074 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.9% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Flossmoor, IL city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $24,863,074 covers every cycle in the table for FLOSSMOOR. The 2008 filter is $216,327 from 55 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $24,646,747. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Flossmoor, IL 2008 donations stay in Illinois?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Flossmoor, IL; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $216,327 by office, state of the committee, or party. A IL city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Illinois races.

How many Flossmoor, IL contributions were itemized in 2008?

55 itemized contribution records sum to $216,327. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,933 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.