Spartanburg, SC political money — 2008 cycle

How Spartanburg, SC meets the 2008 election cycle

$129,590 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SPARTANBURG with state SC, and election cycle 2008. The match is $129,590 across 57 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $15,714,690. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.82% of Spartanburg, SC itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $15,585,100 (99.2%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Spartanburg, SC. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SPARTANBURG. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Spartanburg, SC with every other donor city. The 57 rows and $129,590 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 Spartanburg, SC side of the join

The city aggregate for Spartanburg, SC is $15,714,690 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 $129,590 from 2008 and the $15,585,100 from every other cycle in the same city file. South Carolina campaign-finance pages still mix Spartanburg with every other city in SC.

The stored city is Spartanburg in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Greenville and Columbia are other South Carolina city keys. Keep SC so Spartanburg, SC is not mixed with a same-named place in another state. $15,714,690 is the SC key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Spartanburg, SC, the city stack is $15,714,690 while this cycle is $129,590 (0.82%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for South Carolina filers in Spartanburg

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $129,590. Inside that window, Spartanburg, SC donors itemized $129,590 on 57 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $2,274 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

Fifty-seven receipts totaling $129,590 against a $15,714,690 Spartanburg book is about 0.82% of city dollars, the larger share in this slice because the parent is the smallest city book here, not because 2008 is labeled a wave. Fifty-seven lines is a compact presidential-year file. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for South Carolina still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Spartanburg × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 share of Spartanburg’s smaller city stack

0.82% of $15,714,690 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $15,585,100. Put another way, about 0.82% of Spartanburg, SC itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.2% were not. Those percentages are $129,590 divided by $15,714,690 and $15,585,100 divided by $15,714,690. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.82%) and row volume (57 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.82% as Spartanburg’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $129,590 does not measure

57 itemized contributions totaling $129,590 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 SPARTANBURG. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Spartanburg versus other South Carolina cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $2,274 uses only $129,590 and 57 rows.

$129,590 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city SPARTANBURG. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in South Carolina file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Spartanburg can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Spartanburg and 2008 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Spartanburg 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. A SC address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a South Carolina candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Spartanburg, SC hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Spartanburg, SC, the 2008 election cycle, South Carolina 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. Canonical path is /ties/sc-spartanburg-2008-donations/.

Questions

What is the Spartanburg, SC × 2008 contribution total?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Spartanburg, SC total $129,590 in the 2008 cycle, across 57 contribution records. The same city label totals $15,714,690 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.82% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Spartanburg, SC city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $15,714,690 covers every cycle in the table for SPARTANBURG. The 2008 filter is $129,590 from 57 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $15,585,100. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Spartanburg, SC 2008 donations stay in South Carolina?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Spartanburg, SC; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $129,590 by office, state of the committee, or party. A SC city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of South Carolina races.

How many Spartanburg, SC contributions were itemized in 2008?

57 itemized contribution records sum to $129,590. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $2,274 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.