Springfield, MO political money — 2008 cycle

How Springfield, MO meets the 2008 election cycle

$123,479 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SPRINGFIELD with state MO, and election cycle 2008. The match is $123,479 across 84 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $31,119,274. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.40% of Springfield, MO itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $30,995,795 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Springfield, MO. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SPRINGFIELD. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Springfield, MO with every other donor city. The 84 rows and $123,479 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.

The Springfield, MO side of the join

The city aggregate for Springfield, MO is $31,119,274 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 $123,479 from 2008 and the $30,995,795 from every other cycle in the same city file. Missouri campaign-finance pages still mix Springfield with every other city in MO.

The stored city is Springfield in Greene County, Missouri. Springfield, Illinois and Springfield, Massachusetts are other state keys — keep MO on every sentence. Kansas City and St. Louis are other Missouri city strings, not parents of this total. $31,119,274 is the MO key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Springfield, MO, the city stack is $31,119,274 while this cycle is $123,479 (0.40%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for Missouri filers in Springfield

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. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $123,479. Inside that window, Springfield, MO donors itemized $123,479 on 84 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,470 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.

Eighty-four receipts totaling $123,479 against a $31,119,274 Springfield book is about 0.40% of city dollars. Eighty-four 2008 presidential-year lines is a mid-size Missouri file. Do not merge this join into another Springfield. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Missouri still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Springfield × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 inside Springfield, Missouri’s city book

0.40% of $31,119,274 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $30,995,795. Put another way, about 0.40% of Springfield, MO itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $123,479 divided by $31,119,274 and $30,995,795 divided by $31,119,274. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.40%) and row volume (84 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 0.40% as Springfield’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $123,479 does not measure

84 itemized contributions totaling $123,479 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 SPRINGFIELD. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Springfield versus other Missouri cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,470 uses only $123,479 and 84 rows.

$123,479 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city SPRINGFIELD. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Missouri file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Springfield can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Springfield and 2008 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Springfield against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Missouri. Two columns matched. A MO address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Missouri candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Springfield, MO hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Springfield, MO, the 2008 election cycle, Missouri 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. Canonical path is /ties/mo-springfield-2008-donations/.

Questions

How much did Springfield, MO donors give in 2008?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Springfield, MO total $123,479 in the 2008 cycle, across 84 contribution records. The same city label totals $31,119,274 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.40% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Springfield, MO city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $31,119,274 covers every cycle in the table for SPRINGFIELD. The 2008 filter is $123,479 from 84 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $30,995,795. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Springfield, MO 2008 donations stay in Missouri?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Springfield, MO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $123,479 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MO city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Missouri races.

How many Springfield, MO contributions were itemized in 2008?

84 itemized contribution records sum to $123,479. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,470 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.