Nashville, TN political money — 2008 cycle

Nashville, TN × 2008: the join

$434,461 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city NASHVILLE with state TN, and election cycle 2008. The match is $434,461 across 395 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $165,206,315. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.26% of Nashville, TN itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $164,771,854 (99.74%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Nashville, TN. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under NASHVILLE. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Nashville, TN with every other donor city in the United States. The 395 rows and $434,461 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Nashville, TN here is the string that survived aggregation as NASHVILLE in TN. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Nashville, TN donors itemized $434,461. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

All-cycle Nashville, TN versus this window

The city aggregate for Nashville, TN is $165,206,315 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 $434,461 from 2008 and the $164,771,854 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level TN campaign-finance pages still mix Nashville with every other city in TN.

The stored city is Nashville-Davidson in Davidson County, Tennessee. Franklin, Murfreesboro, and Memphis are not rolled into NASHVILLE. State TN stays on the citation so Nashville, TN is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $165,206,315 is the TN key only. For Nashville, TN, the city stack is $165,206,315 while this cycle is $434,461 (0.26%). Use the city hub for Nashville, TN without a year filter; use this tie for Nashville in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. Filers who typed NASHVILLE are counted; a suburb city they typed instead is not recoded.

What the 2008 presidential window holds for Nashville

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. Inside that window, Nashville, TN donors itemized $434,461 on 395 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,100 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.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for TN still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Nashville × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 395 itemized contribution records produced $434,461. Mean about $1,100 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

A 0.26% cut of the Nashville stack

0.26% of $165,206,315 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.26% of Nashville, TN's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.74% were not. Those percentages are $434,461 divided by $165,206,315 and $164,771,854 divided by $165,206,315. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.26%) and row volume (395 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 0.26% as Nashville's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Davidson County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $434,461.

What $434,461 does not measure

395 itemized contributions totaling $434,461 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 NASHVILLE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Nashville versus other TN cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,100 uses only the two numbers in the join: $434,461 and 395 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This page does not break $434,461 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed NASHVILLE is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Nashville.

Reading Nashville and 2008 together without mixing tables

This page does not rank Nashville against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in TN. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A TN address does not mean the money supported a TN candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Nashville, TN hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Nashville, TN, the 2008 election cycle, Tennessee 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.

Questions

How much did Nashville, TN donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Nashville, TN total $434,461 in the 2008 cycle, across 395 contribution records. The same city label totals $165,206,315 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.26% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Nashville, TN city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $165,206,315 covers every cycle in the table for NASHVILLE. The 2008 filter is $434,461 from 395 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $164,771,854. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Nashville, TN 2008 donations stay in TN?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Nashville, TN; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $434,461 by office, state of the committee, or party. A TN city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of TN races.

How many Nashville, TN contributions were itemized in 2008?

395 itemized contribution records sum to $434,461. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,100 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.