Shreveport, LA political money — 2008 cycle

How Shreveport, LA meets the 2008 election cycle

$220,869 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SHREVEPORT with state LA, and election cycle 2008. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Shreveport, LA city hub and the 2008 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Shreveport, LA in 2008.

216 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored SHREVEPORT is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,023 ($220,869 ÷ 216). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2008 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $220,869. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $220,869 for the 2008 slice and $41.8 million for the Shreveport, LA book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Shreveport, LA side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city SHREVEPORT in Louisiana totals $41.8 million ($41,792,825). $220,869 is 0.5% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Shreveport; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $41,571,956 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Shreveport, LA table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Bossier City, Monroe, and Bossier Parish strings — Bossier City is a different FEC city key and is not rolled into SHREVEPORT. State LA stays on the citation so Shreveport is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $41.8 million is the LA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for Louisiana filers in Shreveport

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 216 Shreveport, LA lines in that window produced $220,869. National 2008 activity — every city — lives on the 2008 election cycle hub, not here. A presidential label marks the even-year window; it is not a finding about turnout in Shreveport.

Louisiana campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Shreveport. Do not add $220,869 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $220,869 into spending by Shreveport candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $220,869 and the $41.8 million city book.

What $220,869 does not measure

$220,869 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city SHREVEPORT. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Louisiana file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Shreveport can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SHREVEPORT is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Shreveport. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 216 as lines that stored this string in 2008. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Shreveport and 2008 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $220,869 beside $41.8 million does not mean 2008 caused the city book or that Shreveport drove the 2008 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Shreveport, LA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Shreveport, LA, the 2008 election cycle, Louisiana campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $220,869 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in Louisiana.

A 0.5% cut of the Shreveport stack

0.5% of $41.8 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $220,869 of the $41,792,825 city stack was tagged 2008, and $41,571,956 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $220,869 divided by $41,792,825 and $41,571,956 divided by $41,792,825. They are not shares of Louisiana totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.5%) and row volume (216 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.5% as Shreveport's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent midterm or presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Shreveport × 2008 only: $220,869, 216 receipts, mean about $1,023. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Shreveport, LA donors give in 2008?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city SHREVEPORT and cycle 2008 total $220,869 across 216 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Shreveport, LA book of $41.8 million. Unitemized gifts and Louisiana state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $220,869 all of Shreveport's federal political money?

No. $41.8 million ($41,792,825) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city SHREVEPORT in LA. The 2008 slice is $220,869, 0.5% of that book. Other cycles hold $41,571,956. 216 is a 2008 receipt count, not a unique-donor count. The city hub holds the stack; this page holds the year.

Did Shreveport, LA 2008 donations stay in Louisiana?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Shreveport, LA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $220,869 by office, state of the committee, or party. A LA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Louisiana races.

How many Shreveport, LA contributions were itemized in 2008?

216 itemized contribution records sum to $220,869. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,023 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.