McCain-Palin 2008 Inc — 2008 cycle receipts

The receipt join for MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC in 2008

McCain-Palin 2008 Inc in 2008 is the authorized presidential committee for that ticket in 2008. The operational definition of the receipt column is $111,653,995.84. The operational definition of the disbursement column is $110,651,836.03. Both numbers share committee ID C00453928. Drop the cycle and you are citing the committee hub. Drop the committee and you are citing the 2008 hub.

The packet Super PAC flag is 0. Type P is the FEC committee-type code in this packet. The 2008 victory and joint-fundraising committees stored as other IDs are other pages if those IDs or years appear in other ties. This slug is only mccain palin 2008 inc 2008 receipts as a URL key; the dollars remain $111,653,995.84 and $110,651,836.03.

2008 is a closed FEC election cycle in this extract. Live committee and cycle pages control if a later harvest disagrees with this JSON snapshot. Cite FEC.gov. Keep both nouns — McCain-Palin 2008 Inc and 2008 — whenever $111,653,995.84 is quoted.

MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC is a committee record, not a donor file

No donor names are supplied. $111,653,995.84 is a committee receipt total for 2008, not a sum of named individuals invented for color. Itemized contribution records, if a reader needs them, live on other LobbyVault pages that this packet does not list as facts.

McCain-Palin 2008 Inc is the authorized presidential committee for that ticket in 2008. The packet Super PAC flag is 0. The committee overlay remains the place to see C00453928 without the 2008 filter. This tie applies the filter.

What the 2008 hub still mixes

The 2008 hub still holds party committees, candidate committees, Super PACs, host committees, and every other type that appeared in that year’s extract. Adding those dollars to $111,653,995.84 would destroy the committee filter. This page keeps the filter: MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC only.

Disbursements of $110,651,836.03 are also cycle-scoped. They are not a later cycle’s spending and they are not another committee’s spending. The packet Super PAC flag is 0.

How to quote $111,653,995.84 without mixing columns

$111,653,995.84 is not $110,651,836.03. Swapping the two figures misstates the cell. Receipts of $111,653,995.84 and disbursements of $110,651,836.03 sit close together in this cycle cell. Closeness is not proof the books are closed, and it is not a cash-on-hand figure. This page does not compute a burn rate, a cash-on-hand estimate, or a debt figure. Those fields are absent.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. $111,653,995.84 does not become an obligation total because a cycle year appears in both systems.

FEC receipts are not federal awards

USAspending publishes federal obligations by agency and place. FEC publishes campaign finance. $111,653,995.84 does not become an award total because a year appears in both systems. This page never claims receipts funded federal awards.

Internal links remain the four packet hrefs only. No other path is cited. Named donors are not cited because they are not in the facts. 2008 is a closed FEC election cycle in this extract.

Why this page is not a donor directory

This page is not a directory of people who gave to McCain-Palin 2008 Inc. $111,653,995.84 is a committee receipt total. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here and are not invented.

The four packet links remain McCain-Palin 2008 Inc, the 2008 election cycle, all committees, and all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov. Committee pages, not donor pages.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: committee MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC (C00453928), election cycle 2008, receipts $111,653,995.84, disbursements $110,651,836.03, FEC type P, Super PAC flag 0. The 2008 victory and joint-fundraising committees stored as other IDs stay on other pages. The 2008 election-cycle hub still mixes every other committee. All committees and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $111,653,995.84: treat it as cash on hand, treat it as a donor roster, treat it as a 2008 grand total for every committee, or treat it as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote disbursements $110,651,836.03 with its own label, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links.

No occupation split, no state split, and no named-donor list appears here. If a later extract revises $111,653,995.84 or $110,651,836.03, the live McCain-Palin 2008 Inc overlay and the live 2008 page control. This JSON file is a snapshot of packet facts, not a third disclosure system. 2008 is a closed FEC election cycle in this extract.

Questions

How much did McCain-Palin 2008 Inc spend in 2008?

Disbursements are $110,651,836.03 for MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC (C00453928) in cycle 2008. Receipts are $111,653,995.84. Do not swap the columns or treat either figure as cash on hand. The packet Super PAC flag is 0. Type P. This page has no payee list and does not invent vendors. Source: FEC.gov cycle-details topCommittees.

What two tables meet on this McCain-Palin 2008 Inc URL?

The committee table for C00453928 and the 2008 election-cycle table. The overlap is receipts $111,653,995.84 and disbursements $110,651,836.03 for MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC. All committees and All FEC ties index neighboring pages. Figures come from FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle. This is a committee page, not a donor page. Type P.

Is C00453928 the same committee in other cycles?

The ID C00453928 is the committee key. Other cycles for that ID are other ties or the committee hub, not this cell. This page quotes only 2008: receipts $111,653,995.84, disbursements $110,651,836.03. Do not add those other cycles to $111,653,995.84 here. The packet does not publish an all-years total for McCain-Palin 2008 Inc.

Are 2008 McCain-Palin 2008 Inc receipts the same as USAspending awards?

No. $111,653,995.84 is FEC campaign-finance receipts for MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC in 2008. Federal contract and grant obligations sit on USAspending.gov as a separate dataset. This join never treats committee receipts as those awards. Disbursements $110,651,836.03 are also FEC campaign-finance figures for committee C00453928, not obligations.