REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE — 2008 cycle receipts

The RNC’s 2008 cycle cell

A pac-cycle page exists because two FEC dimensions meet. One side is REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (C00003418), stored as a qualified party committee (FEC type Y). The other is election cycle 2008. $427,558,779.67 is the receipt total on that intersection from cycle-details topCommittees. It is not the 2008 national cycle sum across every committee, and it is not REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE's receipts in any other even-year window. Later RNC joins in this slice (2012, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022) use the same ID with different dollar pairs. Adding them here would invent a lifetime total the packet does not give.

LobbyVault does not treat this URL as a donor-detail page. No contributor names appear in the packet. The packet flags isSuperPac 0; do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. Source: FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle. Campaign contributions are not USAspending obligations; this join does not claim that $427,558,779.67 funded federal awards.

C00003418 in a 2008 type Y filing window

Committee C00003418 files as REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE. Type Y is a qualified party committee (FEC type Y). The packet flags isSuperPac 0; do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. The committee hub at /committees/C00003418/ mixes every cycle this committee appears in; this tie isolates 2008 only. Adding other-cycle receipts from that hub into $427,558,779.67 would break the join. Among RNC even-year cells in this slice, 2008 is an earlier presidential window with a smaller receipt book than 2020. That comparison is only valid across separately cited joins, not as a hidden running balance on this URL.

All committees at /committees/ still lists every other filer. Those rows are not this cell. Keep C00003418 on the citation so a similar public name cannot swallow this 2008 total.

2008 cycle hub versus this smaller RNC book

Federal election cycles on FEC.gov are two-year windows tagged by the even year of the election. 2008 is that tag, not a single calendar year of January-only activity. The cycle hub at /election-cycles/2008/ lists many committees; REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE is one row in that ranking extract. $427,558,779.67 belongs only to this committee in that window. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle. Obama for America also appears as a 2008 top committee in this slice; that is a type P ID, not C00003418.

All FEC ties at /ties/ collect other committee × cycle pairs and other LobbyVault joins. Opening a sibling tie does not change $427,558,779.67 on this URL. Correlation is not causation: a large 2008 receipt total does not prove why money moved or who sent it.

2008 receipts above 2008 disbursements

Receipts $427,558,779.67 and disbursements $415,508,210.99 are separate FEC columns. Receipts exceed disbursements by $12,050,568.68 in this extract. Neither figure is an independent-expenditure-only total unless the packet’s Super PAC flag says so. This extract does not split operating expenditures, transfers, refunds, or cash-on-hand. Receipts exceed disbursements. The spread is not cash-on-hand and not a 2008 election-result metric.

Mean dollars per donor cannot be computed: the packet has no contribution count and no unique-donor count. Unitemized receipts, if any, are not separated here. Quote $427,558,779.67 and $415,508,210.99 as committee-side cycle totals from FEC.gov.

Do not roll 2008 into 2012 or 2020 RNC cells

This join does not name donors, unique contributors, or employers. It does not convert campaign receipts into USAspending obligations. FEC reports and federal award tables are different datasets even when a famous name overlaps. No donor names. No merge with NRCC. No USAspending crossover.

How to cite the RNC in 2008

Cite REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, committee C00003418, cycle 2008, receipts $427,558,779.67, and disbursements $415,508,210.99, source FEC.gov. Open /committees/C00003418/ for the committee overlay, /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 cycle hub, /committees/ for the full committee index, and /ties/ for other FEC joins. Live overlay pages can move as new bulk files arrive; this snapshot stores the harvested pair.

Restating the join without new numbers: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE in 2008 is $427,558,779.67 receipts and $415,508,210.99 disbursements on FEC.gov. Type Y; isSuperPac 0. Not a donor page. Not a lifetime committee total. Not a national cycle total. Not a USAspending award sum. Type Y, isSuperPac 0, C00003418 × 2008 only. Other RNC cycle joins stay on their own URLs.

Questions

How much did the Republican National Committee raise in 2008?

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (C00003418) reported $427,558,779.67 in FEC.gov receipts for the 2008 election cycle. Disbursements in the same window were $415,508,210.99. This is a committee × cycle join, not a donor roster. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle are the source.

Is the 2008 RNC page a donor list?

No. The packet has no contributor names, no unique-donor count, and no employer split. It stores committee C00003418, type Y, cycle 2008, receipts $427,558,779.67, and disbursements $415,508,210.99. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle are the source.

Can I add 2008 RNC receipts to 2012 RNC receipts on this URL?

Receipts exceed disbursements by $12,050,568.68 in this extract. The packet flags isSuperPac 0; do not relabel this cell as a Super PAC page. Independent expenditures by other committees and USAspending awards are outside this table. Quote both FEC columns with the 2008 cycle tag.

Where are C00003418 and the 2008 cycle hubs?

Open /committees/C00003418/ for REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 election cycle, /committees/ for the committee index, and /ties/ for other FEC joins. This URL is the overlap only. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle are the source.