Short Hills, NJ political money — 2008 cycle

How Short Hills, NJ meets the 2008 election cycle

$126,913 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SHORT HILLS with state NJ, and election cycle 2008. The match is $126,913 across 114 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $41,468,625. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.31% of Short Hills, NJ itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $41,341,712 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Short Hills, NJ. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SHORT HILLS. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Short Hills, NJ with every other donor city. The 114 rows and $126,913 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 Short Hills, NJ side of the join

The city aggregate for Short Hills, NJ is $41,468,625 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 $126,913 from 2008 and the $41,341,712 from every other cycle in the same city file. New Jersey campaign-finance pages still mix Short Hills with every other city in NJ.

The stored city is Short Hills in Essex County, New Jersey. Millburn, Livingston, and Summit are neighboring strings when filers typed them. SHORT HILLS is not recoded into Newark. Keep NJ on the citation. $41,468,625 is the NJ key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Short Hills, NJ, the city stack is $41,468,625 while this cycle is $126,913 (0.31%). 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 New Jersey filers in Short Hills

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 $126,913. Inside that window, Short Hills, NJ donors itemized $126,913 on 114 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,113 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.

One hundred fourteen receipts totaling $126,913 against a $41,468,625 Short Hills book is about 0.31% of city dollars. One hundred fourteen 2008 lines is a mid-size presidential file for a filer-entered suburb label, not a Census place ranking. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New Jersey still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Short Hills × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 inside the Short Hills all-cycle book

0.31% of $41,468,625 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $41,341,712. Put another way, about 0.31% of Short Hills, NJ itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $126,913 divided by $41,468,625 and $41,341,712 divided by $41,468,625. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.31%) and row volume (114 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 0.31% as Short Hills’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 $126,913 does not measure

114 itemized contributions totaling $126,913 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 SHORT HILLS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Short Hills versus other New Jersey cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,113 uses only $126,913 and 114 rows.

$126,913 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city SHORT HILLS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in New Jersey file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Short Hills 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 Short Hills and 2008 without mixing tables

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

See Short Hills, NJ, the 2008 election cycle, New Jersey 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/nj-short-hills-2008-donations/.

Questions

How much did Short Hills, NJ donors give in 2008?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Short Hills, NJ total $126,913 in the 2008 cycle, across 114 contribution records. The same city label totals $41,468,625 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.31% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Short Hills, NJ city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $41,468,625 covers every cycle in the table for SHORT HILLS. The 2008 filter is $126,913 from 114 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $41,341,712. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Short Hills, NJ 2008 donations stay in New Jersey?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Short Hills, NJ; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $126,913 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NJ city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of New Jersey races.

How many Short Hills, NJ contributions were itemized in 2008?

114 itemized contribution records sum to $126,913. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,113 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.