Shaker Heights, OH political money — 2008 cycle

Shaker Heights, OH × 2008 isolates one presidential tag

$173,100 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SHAKER HEIGHTS with state OH, and election cycle 2008. The match is $173,100 across 92 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $22,211,203. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.78% of Shaker Heights, OH itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $22,038,103 (99.2%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Shaker Heights, OH. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SHAKER HEIGHTS. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Shaker Heights, OH with every other donor city in the United States. The 92 rows and $173,100 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.

SHAKER HEIGHTS is not Cleveland on the city field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city SHAKER HEIGHTS in Ohio totals $22.2 million ($22,211,203). $173,100 is 0.78% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Shaker Heights; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $173,100 to $22,211,203; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $22,211,203 − $173,100 = $22,038,103 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, east of Cleveland. Cleveland Heights, University Heights, and Beachwood are other FEC city strings, not folded into SHAKER HEIGHTS. State OH stays on the citation so Shaker Heights is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $22.2 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.

The 2008 two-year window on Shaker Heights 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, Shaker Heights, OH filers itemized $173,100 on 92 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,882 per itemized gift ($173,100 ÷ 92). 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 92-row extract — compact for this suburb string, still a receipt file rather than unique households. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Ohio still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Shaker Heights × 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 $173,100 into the state hub a second time.

2008 versus the rest of the Shaker Heights book

0.78% of $22,211,203 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.78% of Shaker Heights, OH’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.2% were not. Those percentages are $173,100 divided by $22,211,203 and $22,038,103 divided by $22,211,203. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.78%) and row volume (92 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Cleveland and Chagrin Falls are neighboring strings with their own pages. SHAKER HEIGHTS is not a parent or child of either. 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 Shaker Heights’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

92 rows produce a mean, not a median

92 itemized contributions totaling $173,100 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 SHAKER HEIGHTS. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Shaker Heights versus other Ohio cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,882 uses only the two numbers in the join: $173,100 and 92 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 $173,100 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SHAKER HEIGHTS is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Shaker Heights.

Caveats on a Shaker Heights–2008 join

This page does not rank Shaker Heights 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 Shaker Heights, OH hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Inner-ring geography is not an FEC hierarchy. The packet key is city plus state plus cycle.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Shaker Heights, OH, the 2008 election cycle, Ohio campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Lakewood and Cleveland Heights remain separate keys. They are not absorbed into SHAKER HEIGHTS. 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 Shaker Heights, OH donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Shaker Heights, OH total $173,100 in the 2008 cycle, across 92 contribution records. The same city label totals $22,211,203 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.78% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Does the Shaker Heights city aggregate cover only 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $22,211,203 covers every cycle in the table for SHAKER HEIGHTS. The 2008 filter is $173,100 from 92 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $22,038,103. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 Shaker Heights donations stay with Ohio candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Shaker Heights, OH; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $173,100 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 Shaker Heights, OH contributions were itemized in 2008?

92 itemized contribution records sum to $173,100. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,882 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.