Oklahoma City, OK political money — 2008 cycle

Oklahoma City, OK political money in 2008

The join keeps donor city Oklahoma City in Oklahoma and election cycle 2008. The match is $784,001 across 758 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $89,521,225. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.88% of Oklahoma City, OK itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $88,737,224 (99.1%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Oklahoma City, OK. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under OKLAHOMA CITY. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Oklahoma City, OK with every other donor city in the United States. The 758 rows and $784,001 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, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Oklahoma City, OK here is the string that survived aggregation as OKLAHOMA CITY in OK. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $784,001 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Reading the Oklahoma City city aggregate

The city aggregate for Oklahoma City, OK is $89,521,225 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 $784,001 from 2008 and the $88,737,224 from every other cycle in the same city file. Oklahoma campaign-finance pages still mix Oklahoma City with every other city in Oklahoma.

A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Oklahoma City, OK, the city stack is $89,521,225 while this cycle is $784,001 (0.88%). Use the city hub to see Oklahoma City, OK without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Oklahoma City in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

Reading the 2008 election-cycle filter

The 2008 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Oklahoma City, OK donors itemized $784,001 on 758 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,034 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Oklahoma still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Oklahoma City × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 758 itemized rows is a busy but not enormous file. It is large enough that a handful of gifts cannot explain the entire $784,001. Adjacent pages for Oklahoma City, OK, 2008 election cycle, and Oklahoma campaign finance keep those broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Oklahoma City

0.88% of $89,521,225 is a small slice. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $88,737,224. Put another way, about 0.88% of Oklahoma City, OK's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.1% were not. Those percentages are $784,001 divided by $89,521,225 and $88,737,224 divided by $89,521,225. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.88%) and row volume (758 itemized gifts) are separate facts. A small slice of citywide dollars can sit next to a busy contribution 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 0.88% as Oklahoma City's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

758 itemized contributions totaling $784,001 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 OKLAHOMA CITY. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Oklahoma City versus other Oklahoma cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,034 uses only the two numbers in the join: $784,001 and 758 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 $784,001 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Oklahoma City against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Oklahoma. Two columns matched. The city of the contributor is not the city of the campaign. A OK address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Oklahoma candidate.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Oklahoma City, OK, the 2008 election cycle, Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma City, OK donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Oklahoma City, OK total $784,001 in the 2008 cycle, across 758 contribution records. The same city label totals $89,521,225 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.88% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Oklahoma City, OK city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $89,521,225 covers every cycle in the table for OKLAHOMA CITY. The 2008 filter is $784,001 from 758 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $88,737,224. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Oklahoma City, OK 2008 donations stay in Oklahoma?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Oklahoma City, OK; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $784,001 by office, state of the committee, or party. A OK city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Oklahoma races.

How many Oklahoma City, OK contributions were itemized in 2008?

758 itemized contribution records sum to $784,001. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,034 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.