Chagrin Falls, OH political money — 2008 cycle

How Chagrin Falls, OH meets the 2008 election cycle

$129,700 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CHAGRIN FALLS with state OH, and election cycle 2008. The match is $129,700 across 62 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $23,039,536. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.56% of Chagrin Falls, OH itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $22,909,836 (99.4%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Chagrin Falls, OH. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under CHAGRIN FALLS. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Chagrin Falls, OH with every other donor city. The 62 rows and $129,700 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 Chagrin Falls, OH side of the join

The city aggregate for Chagrin Falls, OH is $23,039,536 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 $129,700 from 2008 and the $22,909,836 from every other cycle in the same city file. Ohio campaign-finance pages still mix Chagrin Falls with every other city in OH.

The stored city is Chagrin Falls in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Cleveland, Shaker Heights, and Hunting Valley are other Ohio city keys. CHAGRIN FALLS is not recoded into Cleveland. Keep OH on the citation. $23,039,536 is the OH key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Chagrin Falls, OH, the city stack is $23,039,536 while this cycle is $129,700 (0.56%). 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 Ohio filers in Chagrin Falls

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 $129,700. Inside that window, Chagrin Falls, OH donors itemized $129,700 on 62 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,092 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.

Sixty-two receipts totaling $129,700 against a $23,039,536 Chagrin Falls book is about 0.56% of city dollars — a larger share than many big-city 2008 cuts in this harvest because the parent book is smaller, not because this page ranks suburbs. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Ohio still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Chagrin Falls × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

A 2008 cut of a smaller Ohio city book

0.56% of $23,039,536 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $22,909,836. Put another way, about 0.56% of Chagrin Falls, OH itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.4% were not. Those percentages are $129,700 divided by $23,039,536 and $22,909,836 divided by $23,039,536. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.56%) and row volume (62 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 0.56% as Chagrin Falls’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 $129,700 does not measure

62 itemized contributions totaling $129,700 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 CHAGRIN FALLS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Chagrin Falls versus other Ohio cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $2,092 uses only $129,700 and 62 rows.

$129,700 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city CHAGRIN FALLS. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Ohio file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Chagrin Falls 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 Chagrin Falls and 2008 without mixing tables

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

See Chagrin Falls, OH, the 2008 election cycle, Ohio 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/oh-chagrin-falls-2008-donations/.

Questions

How much did Chagrin Falls, OH donors give in 2008?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Chagrin Falls, OH total $129,700 in the 2008 cycle, across 62 contribution records. The same city label totals $23,039,536 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.56% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Chagrin Falls, OH city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $23,039,536 covers every cycle in the table for CHAGRIN FALLS. The 2008 filter is $129,700 from 62 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $22,909,836. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Chagrin Falls, OH 2008 donations stay in Ohio?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Chagrin Falls, OH; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $129,700 by office, state of the committee, or party. A OH city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Ohio races.

How many Chagrin Falls, OH contributions were itemized in 2008?

62 itemized contribution records sum to $129,700. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,092 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.