How does 2008 compare with the rest of Columbia giving?

2008 is $163,070, 0.37% of the $44,314,231 Columbia, SC book. Other cycles hold $44,151,161 (99.6%). Those shares use this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not shares of South Carolina or of the national 2008 cycle, which are not in these facts.

Are the 189 2008 rows unique Columbia residents?

No. 189 is a receipt count. The same household can appear more than once, and an office or joint-fundraising address stored as COLUMBIA can sit beside a home address. LobbyVault does not convert the city field into a Census residency test. Unique-donor counts are not in the packet.

Do these Columbia dollars fund federal awards?

No. $163,070 is FEC itemized individual contributions. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different table. This packet has no award dollars, contractor names, or recipient UEIs. A shared geography does not turn campaign receipts into federal spending.

What source backs the Columbia, SC 2008 figures?

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. This snapshot stores $163,070 and 189 lines for COLUMBIA in 2008, plus $44,314,231 for the city string across cycles. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

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Columbia, SC political money — 2008 cycle

Schedule A itemizations that stored city COLUMBIA, state SC, and cycle 2008 add to $163,070 on FEC.gov — 189 receipts, mean about $863. The all-cycle book for that city string is $44,314,231, so 2008 is 0.37% of Columbia, SC itemized individual dollars in this extract.

Key figures

The join key is city COLUMBIA plus cycle 2008: $163,070 and 189 rows.
Columbia, SC citywide (all cycles) is $44,314,231; remainder outside 2008 is $44,151,161.
Committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.
Amended reports can move either dollar figure; the newer FEC extract controls.
See Columbia, SC, the 2008 election cycle, South Carolina campaign finance, and All FEC ties.

Filer-entered Columbia in cycle 2008

The city field is whatever the itemized receipt stored. Columbia is the South Carolina capital in Richland County. Columbia, Missouri is a different state-and-city key; Charleston and Greenville are other South Carolina strings. LobbyVault does not merge those neighboring strings into COLUMBIA. $163,070 therefore understates a metro and overstates a literal string match — it is a string match, by design.

189 lines is a relatively large itemized file for this city string. Repeat households and office addresses can share the file. Unique residents are not counted here. 2008 is a presidential election cycle; the tag does not interpret the dollars.

The Columbia, SC hub still shows $44,314,231 across cycles. Other cycles hold $44,151,161 (99.6%). This URL is only Columbia × 2008.

How the 2008 cycle hub differs

The 2008 election cycle page mixes every donor city in the United States. Columbia, SC is one of those cities. Pulling $163,070 out of that national mix is the point of this join. Do not treat the cycle hub as a Columbia directory.

South Carolina campaign finance mixes every city in the state and every cycle in the extract. Adding $163,070 to that state total double-counts. All FEC ties is the index of other joins.

Dollars, rows, and omitted tables

$163,070 is itemized federal individual contributions. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, PAC-to-PAC transfers, and state-office filings are omitted. USAspending awards are omitted. No contractor or award recipient is named because none appears in the packet.

Mean $863 is $163,070 / 189. It is not a median and not a typical household. Occupation and industry cuts of these receipts are other pages.

0.37% of the city book is not a national share

0.37% uses $44,314,231 as the denominator. It is not Columbia's share of the 2008 national cycle. That other percentage would need a national cycle total, which this packet does not include. A thin slice of the citywide book still leaves $44,151,161 in other Columbia, SC cycles.

Internal links on this file are Columbia, SC, the 2008 election cycle, South Carolina campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four. Do not paste $163,070 into a USAspending award story. FEC individual contributions and federal obligations are collected under different statutes, on different forms, for different filers. This packet has no award dollars and no contractor names.

Limits

This page does not rank Columbia, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not map receipts onto South Carolina candidates. A SC city code is an address field. Amended reports can move either dollar figure. See Columbia, SC, the 2008 election cycle, South Carolina campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

This page does not rank Columbia against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in South Carolina. Two columns matched: city COLUMBIA and cycle 2008. The product of that match is $163,070 on 189 rows. Public-opinion claims, turnout claims, and wealth claims would require fields this packet does not have.

Filer spelling splits metros. A contributor who typed COLUMBIA is inside $163,070. A contributor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Columbia. Columbia is the South Carolina capital in Richland County. Columbia, Missouri is a different state-and-city key; Charleston and Greenville are other South Carolina strings. Treat 189 as lines that stored this string in 2008, not as a labor-force or voter-file headcount of Columbia, SC.

The live Columbia, SC hub is the place to browse other cycles under the same city label. The live 2008 election cycle hub is the place to browse other cities in the same two-year window. South Carolina campaign finance is the state roll-up. All FEC ties is the directory. This snapshot cites $163,070, 189 rows, $44,314,231 citywide, and the derived remainder $44,151,161.

Dollar share (0.37%) and row volume (189) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a relatively large itemized file for this city string; 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 0.37% as Columbia's share of the 2008 national cycle.

Questions

How does 2008 compare with the rest of Columbia giving?: 2008 is $163,070, 0.37% of the $44,314,231 Columbia, SC book. Other cycles hold $44,151,161 (99.6%). Those shares use this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not shares of South Carolina or of the national 2008 cycle, which are not in these facts.
Are the 189 2008 rows unique Columbia residents?: No. 189 is a receipt count. The same household can appear more than once, and an office or joint-fundraising address stored as COLUMBIA can sit beside a home address. LobbyVault does not convert the city field into a Census residency test. Unique-donor counts are not in the packet.
Do these Columbia dollars fund federal awards?: No. $163,070 is FEC itemized individual contributions. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different table. This packet has no award dollars, contractor names, or recipient UEIs. A shared geography does not turn campaign receipts into federal spending.
What source backs the Columbia, SC 2008 figures?: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. This snapshot stores $163,070 and 189 lines for COLUMBIA in 2008, plus $44,314,231 for the city string across cycles. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.