Akron, OH political money and the 2008 FEC cycle

$138,020 is the intersection, not the city hub

Quote the join as “Akron, OH × 2008 = $138,020 (54 itemized contributions).” Do not quote $33,965,445 in the same sentence unless you label it as the all-cycle city total. About 0.41% of the stored Akron money sits in 2008; about 99.6% does not.

Source language: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. That sentence is the sourceNote on this file. It does not cover committee-to-committee transfers, operating expenditures, or independent-expenditure filings. Those are other tables.

Why Akron is not a metro rollup

The city side of the join answers “which donor-city string?” The answer is AKRON in OH, displayed as Akron, OH. It does not answer “which ZIP,” “which employer,” or “which occupation.” Those are other LobbyVault dimensions. Occupation-cycle and city-industry pages are different kinds.

Lifetime city money $33,965,445 can look large next to a single-cycle cell of $138,020. That contrast is expected. It is not a finding that 2008 was a weak or strong year in any causal sense. Other cycles simply are not this page.

Nationwide 2008 pages versus this Akron cell

Calling 2008 a “presidential cycle” or a “midterm cycle” is calendar context for the even year. It is not a finding that $138,020 went to a presidential ticket or to House races. Recipient offices are not in the packet. Keep the citation as city × cycle dollars.

The cycle hub will include every city. This tie includes one city. Mixing those grains produces a false Ohio or false national number. Stay on $138,020.

Missing grains: names, parties, offices

Same-city strings in other states are out. Same-year receipts with a different city spelling are out. ZIP codes that sit in Akron but were filed with another city name are out. Akron is stored as AKRON in Ohio. Cleveland, Canton, and Cuyahoga Falls remain other city keys. Those exclusions are why $138,020 can look different from a journalist’s handmade city scrape.

Citation order: dollars, keys, source

City-industry, occupation-cycle, and committee-cycle pages answer other questions. This kind is city-cycle only. If a later packet adds donor counts or committee names, that would be a different file. This one stops at $138,020, 54, $33,965,445, 0.41%, and the keys AKRON / OH / 2008.

Keep the two sides named

Title and H1 name both sides because the page is a join. If a downstream template dropped 2008 or dropped Akron, the remaining label would describe the wrong object. Keep Akron, OH and 2008 in any reuse of $138,020. Restating without new facts: Akron, OH in 2008 is $138,020 from 54 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $33,965,445 across cycles, so this window is about 0.41% and other windows hold $33,827,425. Arithmetic mean per line is about $2,556. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2008 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $138,020: donor city Akron, OH and FEC cycle 2008, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 54 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other Akron cycle pages. City lifetime money $33,965,445 already includes the 2008 window; do not add $138,020 to $33,965,445.

Akron, OH remains one donor-city string on FEC.gov. Cycle 2008 remains one even-year tag. Together they produce $138,020 from 54 itemized individual contributions. The city key still stores $33,965,445 when every stored cycle is included, so 2008 is about 0.41% of that running total and $33,827,425 sits in other windows. Those other windows are not listed here and are not estimated. Mean line size about $2,556 is $138,020 divided by 54, an arithmetic mean rather than a median.

Questions

How much did Akron donors give in 2008?

The 2008 cell for Akron, OH is $138,020 across 54 itemized individual contributions. FEC.gov is the source. The same city string stores $33,965,445 when every cycle is included, so 2008 is about 0.41% of that running sum. No donor names are published in this aggregate.

What share of Akron FEC money is 2008?

$138,020 divided by $33,965,445 is about 0.41%. Remainder $33,827,425 belongs to other cycles stored on the same AKRON key. Do not read the percentage as a share of Ohio giving or of all 2008 itemized gifts. Those denominators are absent from the packet.

Is Akron 2008 the same cell as Akron 2012?

Only the FEC city field AKRON with state OH is in this cell. Neighboring towns, metro labels, and other spellings of Akron are other keys. Akron is stored as AKRON in Ohio. Cleveland, Canton, and Cuyahoga Falls remain other city keys. The 2008 dollars remain $138,020 on that exact string.

Where are the Akron and 2008 overlay pages?

Use /cities/oh-akron/ for Akron, OH without a year filter, /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 cycle without a city filter, /states/OH/ for statewide Ohio context, and /ties/ for other two-dimension pages. This tie stays on $138,020 and 54 lines. Overlay pages are the current record if numbers move.