Omaha, NE political money — 2008 cycle

The 2008 overlap for Omaha, NE

$281,823 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city OMAHA with state NE, and election cycle 2008. The match is $281,823 across 182 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $206,884,556. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.14% of Omaha, NE itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $206,602,733 (99.86%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Omaha, NE. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under OMAHA. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Omaha, NE with every other donor city in the United States. The 182 rows and $281,823 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. Omaha, NE here is the string that survived aggregation as OMAHA in NE. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Omaha, NE donors itemized $281,823. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What the Omaha, NE city book includes

The city aggregate for Omaha, NE is $206,884,556 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 $281,823 from 2008 and the $206,602,733 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level NE campaign-finance pages still mix Omaha with every other city in NE.

The stored city is the City of Omaha in Douglas County, Nebraska. Lincoln, Council Bluffs, and Bellevue are not rolled into OMAHA. State NE stays on the citation so Omaha, NE is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $206,884,556 is the NE key only. For Omaha, NE, the city stack is $206,884,556 while this cycle is $281,823 (0.14%). Use the city hub for Omaha, NE without a year filter; use this tie for Omaha in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River is another state key.

2008 as an FEC cycle tag, not a local election

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, Omaha, NE donors itemized $281,823 on 182 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,548 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 NE still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Omaha × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. A small share of a large city book can still be hundreds of thousands of itemized dollars. 182 rows and a mean near $1,548 describe this pair only. Do not treat a tiny percentage as a quiet city; later cycles in the same string can dwarf $281,823. This URL is the intersection only.

Dollar share is not row share

0.14% of $206,884,556 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.14% of Omaha, NE's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.86% were not. Those percentages are $281,823 divided by $206,884,556 and $206,602,733 divided by $206,884,556. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.14%) and row volume (182 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 Omaha's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Douglas County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $281,823.

Itemized rows are not unique donors

182 itemized contributions totaling $281,823 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 OMAHA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Omaha versus other NE cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,548 uses only the two numbers in the join: $281,823 and 182 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 $281,823 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed OMAHA is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Omaha.

Correlation is not causation on this tie

This page does not rank Omaha against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in NE. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A NE address does not mean the money supported a NE candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Omaha, NE 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 Omaha, NE, the 2008 election cycle, Nebraska 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 Omaha, NE donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Omaha, NE total $281,823 in the 2008 cycle, across 182 contribution records. The same city label totals $206,884,556 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 Omaha, NE city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $206,884,556 covers every cycle in the table for OMAHA. The 2008 filter is $281,823 from 182 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $206,602,733. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Omaha, NE 2008 donations stay in NE?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Omaha, NE; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $281,823 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NE city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of NE races.

How many Omaha, NE contributions were itemized in 2008?

182 itemized contribution records sum to $281,823. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,548 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.