Phila, PA political money — 2008 cycle

Phila, PA × 2008 keeps the stored spelling PHILA

$167,527 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PHILA with state PA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $167,527 across 150 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $31,839,653. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.53% of Phila, PA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $31,672,126 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Phila, PA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under PHILA. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Phila, PA with every other donor city in the United States. The 150 rows and $167,527 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 2008 PHILA key is not a PHILADELPHIA recode

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city PHILA in Pennsylvania totals $31.8 million ($31,839,653). $167,527 is 0.53% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Phila; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $167,527 to $31,839,653; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $31,839,653 − $167,527 = $31,672,126 in other cycles.

PHILA is the stored FEC abbreviation in Pennsylvania for this key. King of Prussia and Ardmore are other Pennsylvania strings. The longer PHILADELPHIA spelling is a different city key when filers typed it that way. State PA stays on the citation so Phila is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $31.8 million is the PA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

Presidential-cycle coding on PHILA receipts

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, Phila, PA filers itemized $167,527 on 150 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,117 per itemized gift ($167,527 ÷ 150). 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 150-row extract for PHILA in 2008 — a mid-size receipt file on the abbreviated city string. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Pennsylvania still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Phila × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Pennsylvania campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $167,527 into the state hub a second time.

2008 versus other PHILA even-year tags

0.53% of $31,839,653 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.53% of Phila, PA’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $167,527 divided by $31,839,653 and $31,672,126 divided by $31,839,653. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.53%) and row volume (150 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Title and H1 keep Phila because that is the FEC city field. Do not treat this URL as a complete Philadelphia-metro book. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.53% as Phila’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

150 rows omit unitemized gifts and IEs

150 itemized contributions totaling $167,527 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 PHILA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Phila versus other Pennsylvania cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,117 uses only the two numbers in the join: $167,527 and 150 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 $167,527 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PHILA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Phila.

What a PHILA–2008 join cannot answer

This page does not rank Phila against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Pennsylvania. Two columns matched. A PA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Pennsylvania candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Phila, PA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This 2008 PHILA slice is not the 2012 PHILA join. Adding them still leaves other cycles in the all-cycle PHILA total.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Phila, PA, the 2008 election cycle, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Camden, New Jersey, is a different state-and-city key even when the river is the same commute. 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 Phila, PA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Phila, PA total $167,527 in the 2008 cycle, across 150 contribution records. The same city label totals $31,839,653 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.53% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Phila city aggregate the same as the 2008 figure?

No. The city aggregate of $31,839,653 covers every cycle in the table for PHILA. The 2008 filter is $167,527 from 150 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $31,672,126. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 PHILA donations stay with Pennsylvania committees?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Phila, PA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $167,527 by office, state of the committee, or party. A PA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Pennsylvania races.

How many Phila, PA contributions were itemized in 2008?

150 itemized contribution records sum to $167,527. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,117 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.