Austin, TX political money — 2008 cycle

2008 receipts from Austin, TX donors

The join keeps donor city Austin in Texas and election cycle 2008. The match is $238,174 across 275 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $242,363,379. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.1% of Austin, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $242,125,205 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Austin, TX. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under AUSTIN. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Austin, TX with every other donor city in the United States. The 275 rows and $238,174 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.

FEC individual contribution files record the contributor's city as entered on the itemized receipt. Spellings, abbreviations, and suburb-versus-city choices can split a metro across multiple city pages. Austin, TX here is the string that survived aggregation as AUSTIN in TX. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window labeled by its even year that includes a presidential general election. This page does not split the $238,174 by office, party, or candidate. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The city hub still mixes other cycles

The city aggregate for Austin, TX is $242,363,379 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 $238,174 from 2008 and the $242,125,205 from every other cycle in the same city file. Texas campaign-finance pages still mix Austin with every other city in Texas.

The stored city sits in Travis County, Texas. Round Rock, Cedar Park, and Pflugerville are not rolled into AUSTIN except as noted: those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into AUSTIN. State TX stays on the citation. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Austin, TX, the city stack is $242,363,379 while this cycle is $238,174 (0.1%). Use the city hub to see Austin, TX without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Austin in 2008. Donor city is not the same as recipient city.

How a presidential cycle is coded at the FEC

The 2008 election cycle is a two-year FEC reporting window labeled by its even year. Inside that window, Austin, TX donors itemized $238,174 on 275 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $866 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. A few large receipts can lift the mean while most rows sit far below it. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Texas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Austin × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 275 itemized rows is a receipt count rather than a unique-person census. Repeat givers and office addresses sit in the same stack.

A modest cut of the Austin stack

0.1% of $242,363,379 is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $238,174 of the $242,363,379 city stack was tagged 2008, and $242,125,205 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $238,174 divided by $242,363,379 and $242,125,205 divided by $242,363,379. They are not shares of Texas totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.1%) and row volume (275 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.1% as Austin's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Austin × 2008 only: $238,174, 275 receipts, mean about $866. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Mean gift size is not a typical donor

See Austin, TX, the 2008 election cycle, Texas campaign finance, and All FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. If the live hub disagrees, the newer FEC extract controls.

This overlay exists so a searcher asking about Austin, TX in 2008 gets the join instead of a generic city or cycle restatement. Quote $238,174, 275, and $242,363,379 as a set. Quoting only one of them drops a filter.

City of the contributor, not the recipient

0-for-national: this packet has no national 2008 dollar total, so Austin, TX cannot be expressed as a percent of the United States. 0.1% is city-internal. 275 is city-and-cycle. Mean $866 is city-and-cycle.

Adjacent pages for Austin, TX, 2008 election cycle, and Texas campaign finance keep the broader cuts; this URL is the intersection only. Figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards.

Questions

How much did Austin, TX donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Austin, TX total $238,174 in the 2008 cycle, across 275 contribution records. The same city label totals $242,363,379 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.1% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Austin, TX city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $242,363,379 covers every cycle in the table for AUSTIN. The 2008 filter is $238,174 from 275 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $242,125,205. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Austin, TX 2008 donations stay in Texas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Austin, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $238,174 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 Austin, TX contributions were itemized in 2008?

275 itemized contribution records sum to $238,174. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $866 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.