Albuquerque, NM political money — 2008 cycle

How Albuquerque, NM meets the 2008 election cycle

$129,820 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ALBUQUERQUE with state NM, and election cycle 2008. The match is $129,820 across 106 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $78,078,048. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.17% of Albuquerque, NM itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $77,948,228 (99.8%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Albuquerque, NM. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under ALBUQUERQUE. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Albuquerque, NM with every other donor city. The 106 rows and $129,820 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 Albuquerque, NM side of the join

The city aggregate for Albuquerque, NM is $78,078,048 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 $129,820 from 2008 and the $77,948,228 from every other cycle in the same city file. New Mexico campaign-finance pages still mix Albuquerque with every other city in NM.

The stored city is Albuquerque in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Santa Fe and Las Cruces are other New Mexico city keys, not subsets of ALBUQUERQUE. Keep NM so the string is not merged with another Albuquerque elsewhere. $78,078,048 is the NM key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Albuquerque, NM, the city stack is $78,078,048 while this cycle is $129,820 (0.17%). 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 Mexico filers in Albuquerque

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 $129,820. Inside that window, Albuquerque, NM donors itemized $129,820 on 106 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,225 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 six receipts totaling $129,820 is a mid-size 2008 presidential file inside a $78,078,048 Albuquerque book — about 0.17%. One hundred six rows can include repeats. This page does not publish a unique-donor count for the join. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for New Mexico still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Albuquerque × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 inside Albuquerque’s all-cycle aggregate

0.17% of $78,078,048 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $77,948,228. Put another way, about 0.17% of Albuquerque, NM itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.8% were not. Those percentages are $129,820 divided by $78,078,048 and $77,948,228 divided by $78,078,048. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.17%) and row volume (106 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 0.17% as Albuquerque’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 $129,820 does not measure

106 itemized contributions totaling $129,820 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 ALBUQUERQUE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Albuquerque versus other New Mexico cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,225 uses only $129,820 and 106 rows.

$129,820 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city ALBUQUERQUE. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in New Mexico file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Albuquerque 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 Albuquerque and 2008 without mixing tables

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

See Albuquerque, NM, the 2008 election cycle, New Mexico 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/nm-albuquerque-2008-donations/.

Questions

What did Albuquerque, NM itemize in the 2008 FEC cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Albuquerque, NM total $129,820 in the 2008 cycle, across 106 contribution records. The same city label totals $78,078,048 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.17% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Albuquerque, NM city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $78,078,048 covers every cycle in the table for ALBUQUERQUE. The 2008 filter is $129,820 from 106 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $77,948,228. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Albuquerque, NM 2008 donations stay in New Mexico?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Albuquerque, NM; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $129,820 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NM city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of New Mexico races.

How many Albuquerque, NM contributions were itemized in 2008?

106 itemized contribution records sum to $129,820. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,225 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.