Villanova, PA political money — 2008 cycle

Overlap dollars for Villanova, PA in 2008

Villanova, PA in 2008 is a filter, not a story about why money moved. The filtered dollars are $213,200. The filtered rows are 92. The unfiltered city dollars are $19,805,772. FEC.gov publishes the underlying itemized individual contribution file; this page reports the aggregate join only.

1.1% of the Villanova, PA stack landed in the 2008 tag under this extract. That is $213,200 out of $19,805,772. The other 98.9% — $19,592,572 — carries other cycle labels. Dollar share and row volume are separate facts. This packet has no all-cycle row count, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. The presidential or midterm label is a ballot calendar, not a finding about the Main Line in Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania. Committees that received these gifts can file from any state. Donor city is not recipient city.

Geography: the Main Line in Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania

Map first, then dollars: Villanova, PA is stored against the Main Line in Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania. Neighbors include Bryn Mawr, Wayne, and Radnor; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into VILLANOVA. The dollar facts remain $213,200 in 2008 and $19,805,772 across cycles. Geography does not change the arithmetic.

Pennsylvania pages accumulate every city in the state. Do not add $213,200 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. The city page already contains this cycle. Only the tie page isolates both filters at once.

Cycle 2008 is not a calendar-year census

FEC.gov cycle 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. Villanova, PA activity inside that window is $213,200 / 92 receipts. Mean about $2,317. The mean is not a typical the Main Line in Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania household.

State-office campaigns in Pennsylvania file under state law and sit outside both $213,200 and $19,805,772. Federal itemized individual contributions are the only dollars on this page.

Unitemized gifts sit outside $213,200

Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $213,200 and $19,805,772. Independent expenditures are another table. PAC transfers are another table. Mixing those tables with this join would misstate 2008 activity in Villanova, PA.

A candidate based in Villanova can raise from other cities; those receipts have other city keys. Money that left VILLANOVA addresses in 2008 can support committees anywhere. Donor city ≠ recipient city.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city VILLANOVA, state PA, election cycle 2008, itemized dollars $213,200, itemized rows 92, all-cycle city dollars $19,805,772. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of the Main Line in Delaware and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania against other places.

Correlation is not causation

Use Villanova, PA when the year does not matter. Use 2008 election cycle when the city does not matter. Use Pennsylvania campaign finance when the question is Pennsylvania-wide. Use this page when both city and 2008 matter. Use All FEC ties to move to another pair.

The source system is FEC.gov. LobbyVault indexes aggregates. Neither site is a bank of federal awards. USAspending is a different statute and a different table.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Villanova, PA, filers also use labels such as Bryn Mawr, Wayne, and Radnor; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into VILLANOVA. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Pennsylvania state-office filings sit outside $213,200 and outside $19,805,772. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

1.1% of the city stack is still one join

Villanova × 2008 remains $213,200 / 92 / mean $2,317 / city $19,805,772 / share 1.1%. That is the recap. The rest of the page exists to stop those numbers from being pasted onto the wrong hub.

See Villanova, PA, 2008 election cycle, Pennsylvania campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Do not invent donor names. Do not claim donations fund federal awards.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $213,200 is 1.1% of $19,805,772; $19,592,572 is the other 98.9%; mean itemized line is about $2,317 ($213,200 ÷ 92). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Villanova, PA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Villanova, PA donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Villanova, PA total $213,200 in the 2008 cycle, across 92 contribution records. The same city label totals $19,805,772 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 1.1% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Villanova, PA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $19,805,772 covers every cycle in the table for VILLANOVA. The 2008 filter is $213,200 from 92 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $19,592,572. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Villanova, PA 2008 donations stay in Pennsylvania?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Villanova, PA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $213,200 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 Villanova, PA contributions were itemized in 2008?

92 itemized contribution records sum to $213,200. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,317 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.