Amarillo, TX political money — 2008 cycle

Amarillo, TX × 2008 is a presidential city-cycle join

$174,479 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city AMARILLO with state TX, and election cycle 2008. The match is $174,479 across 143 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $36,548,245. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.48% of Amarillo, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $36,373,766 (99.5%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Amarillo, TX. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under AMARILLO. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Amarillo, TX with every other donor city in the United States. The 143 rows and $174,479 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 packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. This page is not a Texas Ethics Commission state-campaign total, a Panhandle ranking, or a cattle-industry census. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

AMARILLO as a Texas Panhandle address field

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city AMARILLO in Texas totals $36.5 million ($36,548,245). $174,479 is 0.48% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Amarillo; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. Do not add $174,479 to $36,548,245; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $36,548,245 − $174,479 = $36,373,766 in other cycles.

The stored city sits in Potter and Randall County, Texas, in the Panhandle. Canyon, Hereford, and Pampa are other FEC city strings, not rolled into AMARILLO. State TX stays on the citation so Amarillo is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $36.5 million is the TX key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 FEC two-year window on Amarillo lines

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window that includes a presidential general election. Inside that window, Amarillo, TX filers itemized $174,479 on 143 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,220 per itemized gift ($174,479 ÷ 143). That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical resident and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

a 143-row extract — a mid-size receipt file for this city string, still lines rather than unique residents. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Texas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Amarillo × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. Texas campaign-finance pages already contain this city when the same extract is used; do not add $174,479 into the state hub a second time.

2008 as a slice of the Amarillo city book

0.48% of $36,548,245 is the 2008 slice. Put another way, about 0.48% of Amarillo, TX’s itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.5% were not. Those percentages are $174,479 divided by $36,548,245 and $36,373,766 divided by $36,548,245. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.48%) and row volume (143 itemized gifts) are separate facts. Dallas, Houston, and Austin are other Texas city keys. This join does not rank AMARILLO against them. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.48% as Amarillo’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts.

143 itemized gifts omit IE and transfer tables

143 itemized contributions totaling $174,479 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 AMARILLO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Amarillo versus other Texas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,220 uses only the two numbers in the join: $174,479 and 143 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 city-cycle page does not break the $174,479 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed AMARILLO is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Amarillo.

What Amarillo–2008 does not prove

This page does not rank Amarillo against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Texas. Two columns matched. A TX address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Texas candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Amarillo, TX hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. Panhandle geography is map context. The packet key is city AMARILLO, state TX, cycle 2008.

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and non-individual sources are omitted. See Amarillo, TX, the 2008 election cycle, Texas campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Lubbock is a different Texas city key. It is not absorbed into AMARILLO. 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 Amarillo, TX donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Amarillo, TX total $174,479 in the 2008 cycle, across 143 contribution records. The same city label totals $36,548,245 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.48% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is Amarillo’s citywide FEC total only 2008 money?

No. The city aggregate of $36,548,245 covers every cycle in the table for AMARILLO. The 2008 filter is $174,479 from 143 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $36,373,766. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did 2008 Amarillo itemized gifts stay with Texas candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Amarillo, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $174,479 by office, state of the committee, or party. A TX city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Texas races.

How many Amarillo, TX contributions were itemized in 2008?

143 itemized contribution records sum to $174,479. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,220 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.