Raleigh, NC political money — 2008 cycle

How Raleigh, NC meets the 2008 election cycle

$128,150 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city RALEIGH with state NC, and election cycle 2008. The match is $128,150 across 85 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $90,097,051. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.14% of Raleigh, NC itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $89,968,901 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Raleigh, NC. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under RALEIGH. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Raleigh, NC with every other donor city. The 85 rows and $128,150 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 Raleigh, NC side of the join

The city aggregate for Raleigh, NC is $90,097,051 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 $128,150 from 2008 and the $89,968,901 from every other cycle in the same city file. North Carolina campaign-finance pages still mix Raleigh with every other city in NC.

The stored city is Raleigh in Wake County, North Carolina. Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary are other North Carolina city keys. Keep NC so Raleigh, NC is not mixed with a same-named string in another state. $90,097,051 is the NC key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Raleigh, NC, the city stack is $90,097,051 while this cycle is $128,150 (0.14%). 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 North Carolina filers in Raleigh

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 $128,150. Inside that window, Raleigh, NC donors itemized $128,150 on 85 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,508 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-five receipts totaling $128,150 against a $90,097,051 Raleigh book is about 0.14% of city dollars. Eighty-five lines is a mid-size 2008 presidential file. The city hub, not this page, is where other Raleigh cycles live. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for North Carolina still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Raleigh × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 inside Raleigh’s published city aggregate

0.14% of $90,097,051 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $89,968,901. Put another way, about 0.14% of Raleigh, NC itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $128,150 divided by $90,097,051 and $89,968,901 divided by $90,097,051. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.14%) and row volume (85 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 0.14% as Raleigh’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 $128,150 does not measure

85 itemized contributions totaling $128,150 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 RALEIGH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Raleigh versus other North Carolina cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,508 uses only $128,150 and 85 rows.

$128,150 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city RALEIGH. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in North Carolina file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Raleigh 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 Raleigh and 2008 without mixing tables

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

See Raleigh, NC, the 2008 election cycle, North Carolina 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/nc-raleigh-2008-donations/.

Questions

What did Raleigh, NC donors itemize in the 2008 cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Raleigh, NC total $128,150 in the 2008 cycle, across 85 contribution records. The same city label totals $90,097,051 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.14% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Raleigh, NC city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $90,097,051 covers every cycle in the table for RALEIGH. The 2008 filter is $128,150 from 85 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $89,968,901. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Raleigh, NC 2008 donations stay in North Carolina?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Raleigh, NC; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $128,150 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NC city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of North Carolina races.

How many Raleigh, NC contributions were itemized in 2008?

85 itemized contribution records sum to $128,150. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,508 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.