Dayton, OH political money — 2008 cycle

Dayton, OH and the 2008 presidential cycle

$172,760 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city DAYTON with state OH, and election cycle 2008. The match is $172,760 across 206 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $35,725,641. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.48% of Dayton, OH itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $35,552,881 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Dayton, OH. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under DAYTON. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Dayton, OH with every other donor city in the United States. The 206 rows and $172,760 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 packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not an Ohio statewide campaign total, a Miami Valley ranking, or a Wright-Patterson census. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

DAYTON as a Montgomery County address field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city DAYTON in Ohio totals $35.7 million ($35,725,641). $172,760 is 0.48% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Dayton; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $172,760 to $35,725,641; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $35,725,641 − $172,760 = $35,552,881 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Montgomery County, Ohio. Kettering, Oakwood, and Beavercreek are other FEC city strings, not rolled into DAYTON. State OH stays on the citation so Dayton is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $35.7 million is the OH key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

Presidential-cycle coding for 206 Dayton lines

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Dayton, OH filers itemized $172,760 on 206 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $839 per itemized gift ($172,760 ÷ 206). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 206-row extract — a thicker 2008 receipt file for this city string, still Schedule A lines. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Ohio still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Dayton × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Ohio campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $172,760 into the state hub a second time.

2008 inside the Dayton all-cycle book

0.48% of $35,725,641 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.48% of Dayton, OH’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $172,760 divided by $35,725,641 and $35,552,881 divided by $35,725,641. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.48%) and row volume (206 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This 2008 page is not the 2010 Dayton join. Each even-year tag is a separate filter on DAYTON in OH. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.48% as Dayton’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

206 contribution records omit IE tables

206 itemized contributions totaling $172,760 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 DAYTON. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Dayton versus other Ohio cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $839 uses only the two numbers in the join: $172,760 and 206 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 $172,760 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed DAYTON is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Dayton.

What Dayton–2008 cannot support

This page does not rank Dayton 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 Dayton, OH hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Columbus and Cincinnati are other Ohio city keys. This join does not rank DAYTON against them.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Dayton, OH, the 2008 election cycle, Ohio campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Huber Heights, if stored as its own string, is not this DAYTON key. The packet city is DAYTON. 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 Dayton, OH donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Dayton, OH total $172,760 in the 2008 cycle, across 206 contribution records. The same city label totals $35,725,641 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.48% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Dayton’s citywide FEC total only 2008 money?

No. The city aggregate of $35,725,641 covers every cycle in the table for DAYTON. The 2008 filter is $172,760 from 206 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $35,552,881. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 Dayton itemized gifts stay in Ohio races?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Dayton, OH; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $172,760 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 Dayton, OH contributions were itemized in 2008?

206 itemized contribution records sum to $172,760. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $839 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.