Knoxville, TN political money — 2008 cycle

Mean size versus the 2008 total for Knoxville

$1,006 uses only two packet numbers: $148,857 and 148 rows. Large itemizations pull the mean up; small itemized gifts pull it down. The packet has no median, no unique-donor count, and no household income field. Reporting the mean without those caveats would overclaim. 148 is a mid-size itemized file.

The headline dollar remains $148,857, the overlap of city KNOXVILLE and cycle 2008. Relative to the $76,226,082 city book, that is 0.20% — a thin slice of the citywide book. Other cycles hold $76,077,225 (99.8%). Share of dollars is not share of rows; a citywide row count is not in these facts.

FEC individual contribution files are Schedule A itemizations. Unitemized gifts below the threshold never enter $148,857. Independent expenditures never enter it. Committee-to-committee transfers are another table. This page does not invent donor names or contractor names.

City string KNOXVILLE in Tennessee

Knoxville sits in Knox County, Tennessee. Nashville, Chattanooga, and Maryville are other Tennessee city fields. The stored value is the filer-entered city on the receipt, not a geocoder's preferred place name. $76,226,082 covers that string across cycles. Tennessee campaign finance still mixes Knoxville with every other city in the state.

Keep TN on the key. Same-named places in other states are different FEC rows. Donor city is not recipient city: a TN address does not prove the committee was a Tennessee campaign.

Cycle 2008 as a two-year FEC tag

The 2008 election cycle is a Commission tag, a presidential election cycle, not a January-to-December cash diary. Inside that window, Knoxville, TN produced $148,857 on 148 lines. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. This URL isolates one geography.

All FEC ties collects other joins built the same way. None of those pages turns $148,857 into federal award obligations. FEC receipts and USAspending awards share neither a form nor a statute.

Limits of an arithmetic join

Do not rank Knoxville against other cities from this file. Do not call 2008 a wave. Amended reports can revise $148,857 or $76,226,082. Internal links: Knoxville, TN, 2008 election cycle, Tennessee campaign finance, All FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Source note, restated: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Original reports remain on the Commission site. LobbyVault indexes the join so a reader can hold $148,857 for Knoxville, TN in 2008 without mistaking it for the $76,226,082 city book. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

What stays outside the packet

Occupation, industry, committee ID, and party are not in these facts. Unique residents are not in these facts. State-office money is not in these facts. The operational definition of this page is 148 itemized contributions totaling $148,857 for Knoxville, TN in 2008, against a citywide itemized book of $76,226,082.

Dollar share (0.20%) and row volume (148) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a mid-size itemized file; 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 0.20% as Knoxville's share of the 2008 national cycle.

Occupation, industry, and committee cuts of $148,857 are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the 148 receipts by employer, occupation, party, or recipient. Inventing those breakdowns would go beyond the facts. The only names on this page are the stored city string KNOXVILLE, the state TN, and the cycle year 2008.

A candidate who lives in Knoxville can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. A candidate who lives elsewhere can raise money from Knoxville; those gifts are this join when the contributor city stored KNOXVILLE. Residence of the candidate is not a field in this packet. $148,857 is contributor geography in cycle 2008, nothing else.

Questions

Why does Knoxville, TN have a separate 2008 page?

Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Knoxville, TN across cycles is $76,226,082. 2008 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city KNOXVILLE in TN during cycle 2008: $148,857 across 148 itemized receipts.

Can I add $148,857 to the Tennessee state total?

Do not add it a second time. Tennessee campaign-finance pages already include Knoxville when the same extract is used. Double-counting $148,857 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.

What does the 2008 cycle tag mean for Knoxville?

2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Knoxville, TN donors itemized $148,857 on 148 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.

Does this page name Knoxville committees or donors?

No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.