Great Neck, NY political money — 2008 cycle

How Great Neck, NY meets the 2008 election cycle

$291,025 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city GREAT NECK with state NY, and election cycle 2008. The match is $291,025 across 238 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $37,353,623. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.78% of Great Neck, NY itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $37,062,598 (99.2%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Great Neck, NY. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under GREAT NECK. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Great Neck, NY with every other donor city in the United States. The 238 rows and $291,025 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.

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. Great Neck, NY here is the string that survived aggregation as GREAT NECK in NY. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Great Neck, NY donors itemized $291,025. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Great Neck, NY side of the join

The city aggregate for Great Neck, NY is $37,353,623 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 $291,025 from 2008 and the $37,062,598 from every other cycle in the same city file. New York campaign-finance pages still mix Great Neck with every other city in New York.

The stored city sits in Nassau County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. Manhasset, Port Washington, and New York City are not rolled into GREAT NECK. State NY stays on the citation. $37,353,623 is the NY key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Great Neck, NY, the city stack is $37,353,623 while this cycle is $291,025 (0.78%). Use the city hub to see Great Neck, NY without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Great Neck in 2008. 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 York filers in Great Neck

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, Great Neck, NY donors itemized $291,025 on 238 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,223 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 New York still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Great Neck × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 238 itemized rows is a moderate file. Adjacent pages for Great Neck, NY, 2008 election cycle, and New York campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Great Neck

0.78% of $37,353,623 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $37,062,598. Put another way, about 0.78% of Great Neck, NY's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.2% were not. Those percentages are $291,025 divided by $37,353,623 and $37,062,598 divided by $37,353,623. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.78%) and row volume (238 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a moderate file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.78% as Great Neck's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

238 itemized contributions totaling $291,025 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 GREAT NECK. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Great Neck versus other New York cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,223 uses only the two numbers in the join: $291,025 and 238 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 city-cycle page does not break the $291,025 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed GREAT NECK is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Great Neck.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Great Neck against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in New York. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A NY address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a New York candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Great Neck, NY 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 Great Neck, NY, the 2008 election cycle, New York 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 Great Neck, NY donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Great Neck, NY total $291,025 in the 2008 cycle, across 238 contribution records. The same city label totals $37,353,623 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.78% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Great Neck, NY city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $37,353,623 covers every cycle in the table for GREAT NECK. The 2008 filter is $291,025 from 238 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $37,062,598. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Great Neck, NY 2008 donations stay in New York?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Great Neck, NY; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $291,025 by office, state of the committee, or party. A NY city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of New York races.

How many Great Neck, NY contributions were itemized in 2008?

238 itemized contribution records sum to $291,025. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,223 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.