Detroit, MI political money — 2008 cycle

Joining Detroit, MI to the 2008 cycle

$192,550 is the match: DETROIT + MI + 2008, 286 itemized rows. $78,603,491 is the city without a year filter. 0.24% of the city stack sits in 2008; 99.8% ($78,410,941) sits elsewhere. That is a modest slice of the city stack for this pair. The percentage uses only $192,550 and $78,603,491.

Do not substitute the Detroit, MI hub or the 2008 cycle hub for this URL. The hub for the city blends cycles; the hub for the cycle blends cities. Only the intersection carries 286 rows and $192,550. A join is not a causal story. It does not identify recipients as local to Michigan and does not explain why the gifts were made.

Receipt city is whatever the filer typed. The 2008 tag is presidential (presidential general inside the window). Calendar type is not an explanation of $192,550. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city table for DETROIT

Stack every cycle for Detroit, MI and the packet reports $78,603,491. 2008 contributes $192,550; the complement is $78,410,941. That stack is itemized individual money on this city string, not a count of Detroit residents and not a unique-donor census. Michigan pages still include cities other than Detroit.

The stored city is Detroit, Michigan. Southfield, Dearborn, Warren, and Grosse Pointe are different city strings. Wayne County as a whole is not DETROIT. State MI is required on the key. $78,603,491 belongs to the MI key. City size and cycle size are independent facts: $78,603,491 citywide, $192,550 in 2008 (0.24%). The city hub drops the year; this tie keeps both filters. Money received by committees is not constrained to Detroit or to Michigan.

2008 as an FEC two-year cycle

FEC cycles last two years. 2008 on a receipt is that window, not a single tax year. Inside it, Detroit, MI itemized $192,550 on 286 records, a mean of about $673. The mean is $192,550 ÷ 286 rows. Median and unique-donor counts are absent from the packet and are omitted.

National 2008 pages still list other cities. Michigan pages still list other cycles. This join is Detroit × 2008 only. Unitemized amounts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are out of scope. 286 itemized rows is a large absolute count of receipts for this join. Use the linked city, cycle, state, and ties indexes for the adjacent tables.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $192,550 is the 2008 cell for Detroit, MI: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 286 records. $78,603,491 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $78,410,941 in other even-year windows. Citing $78,603,491 as a 2008 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $192,550 as the lifetime Detroit total mixes the join into the city hub. 286 is cycleContributions for 2008 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 286 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 0.24% is dollars only — $192,550 divided by $78,603,491 — not a share of Michigan 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 $192,550 or $78,603,491. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Other cycles versus 2008 in Detroit

0.24% equals $192,550 / $78,603,491. 99.8% equals $78,410,941 / $78,603,491. About 0.24% of Detroit, MI itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were tagged 2008; about 99.8% were not. Those shares are not state shares, not national-cycle shares, and not voter shares.

Keep dollar share and row count apart: 0.24% versus 286 gifts. No all-cycle row total is in the packet, so a row share is not stated. 0.24% is not Detroit's slice of the nationwide 2008 cycle; that nationwide total is not a fact here.

What {n} rows can and cannot mean

286 × itemized receipts = $192,550 for this definition. Households can appear more than once. Spellings of DETROIT can fragment or duplicate. Unique people are not counted. Detroit is not ranked against other Michigan places on this page.

About $673 per row is an arithmetic mean only. Occupation and industry joins are elsewhere. The $192,550 is not broken out by committee. If the city field was not DETROIT, the gift is outside this cell even if the donor lived nearby.

Limits of a geographic-cycle match

The page does not rank cities, does not label 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized receipts as Michigan opinion. Contributor city ≠ campaign city. A MI address does not equal a Michigan candidate. Amendments can revise either aggregate. Prefer a newer FEC extract if hubs disagree.

Left out: unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, non-individual sources, USAspending awards. See Detroit, MI; 2008 election cycle; Michigan campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Detroit donors itemize in 2008?

$192,550 from 286 itemized individual contribution records listing Detroit, MI. The all-cycle city total is $78,603,491, so 2008 is 0.24% of that stack. FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates are the source.

Is $78,603,491 the 2008 figure for Detroit, MI?

No. $78,603,491 is all cycles for DETROIT. 2008 is $192,550 on 286 gifts; other cycles are $78,410,941. Use the city hub for the stack and this ties URL for the 2008 cut.

Did 2008 money from Detroit fund only Michigan races?

Unknown from these facts. Donor city is Detroit, MI. Recipients may be anywhere in the FEC system. $192,550 is not split by office, party, or committee state on this page.

What does 286 contributions mean for Detroit in 2008?

It means 286 itemized rows totaling $192,550, about $673 each as an arithmetic mean. It does not mean 286 unique people. Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are excluded. No unique-donor census is in the packet.