Southfield, MI political money — 2008 cycle

Southfield, MI and the 2008 presidential cycle

$174,295 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SOUTHFIELD with state MI, and election cycle 2008. The match is $174,295 across 81 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $28,512,841. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.61% of Southfield, MI itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $28,338,546 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Southfield, MI. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SOUTHFIELD. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Southfield, MI with every other donor city in the United States. The 81 rows and $174,295 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.

SOUTHFIELD is not Detroit on the FEC city field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city SOUTHFIELD in Michigan totals $28.5 million ($28,512,841). $174,295 is 0.61% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Southfield; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $174,295 to $28,512,841; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $28,512,841 − $174,295 = $28,338,546 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Oakland County, Michigan, north of Detroit. Farmington Hills, Oak Park, and Beverly Hills, MI are other FEC city strings, not rolled into SOUTHFIELD. State MI stays on the citation so Southfield is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $28.5 million is the MI key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

2008 as a cycle tag on Southfield receipts

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Southfield, MI filers itemized $174,295 on 81 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,152 per itemized gift ($174,295 ÷ 81). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

an 81-row extract — compact for this suburb string, still a receipt file rather than unique households. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Michigan still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Southfield × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Michigan campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $174,295 into the state hub a second time.

How 2008 sits inside the Southfield book

0.61% of $28,512,841 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.61% of Southfield, MI’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $174,295 divided by $28,512,841 and $28,338,546 divided by $28,512,841. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.61%) and row volume (81 itemized gifts) are separate facts. DETROIT is a neighboring city key with its own pages. Filers who typed SOUTHFIELD stay here; they are not recoded into Detroit. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.61% as Southfield’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

81 rows lift no median and name no donor

81 itemized contributions totaling $174,295 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 SOUTHFIELD. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Southfield versus other Michigan cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $2,152 uses only the two numbers in the join: $174,295 and 81 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 city-cycle page does not break the $174,295 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SOUTHFIELD is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Southfield.

Caveats on a Southfield–2008 join

This page does not rank Southfield against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Michigan. Two columns matched. A MI address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Michigan candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Southfield, MI hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Oakland County is map context. The FEC key is city plus state, not county of residence as a Census test.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Southfield, MI, the 2008 election cycle, Michigan campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Troy and Birmingham, Michigan, are other Oakland County strings. They are not folded into SOUTHFIELD. 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 Southfield, MI donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Southfield, MI total $174,295 in the 2008 cycle, across 81 contribution records. The same city label totals $28,512,841 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.61% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does Southfield’s city aggregate cover only 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $28,512,841 covers every cycle in the table for SOUTHFIELD. The 2008 filter is $174,295 from 81 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $28,338,546. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Were 2008 Southfield gifts limited to Michigan races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Southfield, MI; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $174,295 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MI city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Michigan races.

How many Southfield, MI contributions were itemized in 2008?

81 itemized contribution records sum to $174,295. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,152 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.