Chevy Chase, MD political money — 2008 cycle

Chevy Chase, MD × 2008: the join

$509,885 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CHEVY CHASE with state MD, and election cycle 2008. The match is $509,885 across 346 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $94,884,425. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.54% of Chevy Chase, MD itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $94,374,540 (99.46%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Chevy Chase, MD. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under CHEVY CHASE. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Chevy Chase, MD with every other donor city in the United States. The 346 rows and $509,885 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Chevy Chase, MD here is the string that survived aggregation as CHEVY CHASE in MD. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Chevy Chase, MD donors itemized $509,885. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

All-cycle Chevy Chase, MD versus this window

The city aggregate for Chevy Chase, MD is $94,884,425 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 $509,885 from 2008 and the $94,374,540 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level MD campaign-finance pages still mix Chevy Chase with every other city in MD.

The stored city is Chevy Chase in Montgomery County, Maryland. Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Washington are not rolled into CHEVY CHASE. State MD stays on the citation so Chevy Chase, MD is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $94,884,425 is the MD key only. For Chevy Chase, MD, the city stack is $94,884,425 while this cycle is $509,885 (0.54%). Use the city hub for Chevy Chase, MD without a year filter; use this tie for Chevy Chase in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. CHEVY CHASE in MD is not recoded from a DC or Bethesda city field.

What the 2008 presidential window holds for Chevy Chase

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. Inside that window, Chevy Chase, MD donors itemized $509,885 on 346 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,474 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for MD still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Chevy Chase × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A suburb-scale row file (346 receipts) with mean near $1,474 is still itemized Schedule A, not a property-tax roll. $509,885 is the overlap only. Nearby city strings are other pages. This URL is the intersection only.

A 0.54% cut of the Chevy Chase stack

0.54% of $94,884,425 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.54% of Chevy Chase, MD's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.46% were not. Those percentages are $509,885 divided by $94,884,425 and $94,374,540 divided by $94,884,425. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.54%) and row volume (346 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.54% as Chevy Chase's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Montgomery County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $509,885.

What $509,885 does not measure

346 itemized contributions totaling $509,885 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 CHEVY CHASE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Chevy Chase versus other MD cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,474 uses only the two numbers in the join: $509,885 and 346 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 page does not break $509,885 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed CHEVY CHASE is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Chevy Chase.

Reading Chevy Chase and 2008 together without mixing tables

This page does not rank Chevy Chase against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in MD. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A MD address does not mean the money supported a MD candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Chevy Chase, MD hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Chevy Chase, MD, the 2008 election cycle, Maryland campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. 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 Chevy Chase, MD donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Chevy Chase, MD total $509,885 in the 2008 cycle, across 346 contribution records. The same city label totals $94,884,425 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.54% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Chevy Chase, MD city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $94,884,425 covers every cycle in the table for CHEVY CHASE. The 2008 filter is $509,885 from 346 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $94,374,540. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Chevy Chase, MD 2008 donations stay in MD?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Chevy Chase, MD; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $509,885 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MD city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of MD races.

How many Chevy Chase, MD contributions were itemized in 2008?

346 itemized contribution records sum to $509,885. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,474 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.