Corpus Christi, TX political money — 2008 cycle

How Corpus Christi, TX meets the 2008 election cycle

$133,368 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city CORPUS CHRISTI with state TX, and election cycle 2008. The match is $133,368 across 137 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $48,968,898. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.27% of Corpus Christi, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $48,835,530 (99.7%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Corpus Christi, TX. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under CORPUS CHRISTI. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Corpus Christi, TX with every other donor city. The 137 rows and $133,368 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 Corpus Christi, TX side of the join

The city aggregate for Corpus Christi, TX is $48,968,898 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 $133,368 from 2008 and the $48,835,530 from every other cycle in the same city file. Texas campaign-finance pages still mix Corpus Christi with every other city in TX.

The stored city is Corpus Christi in Nueces County, Texas. Houston, San Antonio, and Austin are other Texas contributor-city keys and are not rolled into CORPUS CHRISTI. State TX stays on the citation so this Coastal Bend string is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $48,968,898 is the TX key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Corpus Christi, TX, the city stack is $48,968,898 while this cycle is $133,368 (0.27%). 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 Texas filers in Corpus Christi

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 $133,368. Inside that window, Corpus Christi, TX donors itemized $133,368 on 137 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $973 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.

One hundred thirty-seven receipts totaling $133,368 is a mid-size 2008 file against a $48,968,898 city book. The implied mean is dollars divided by lines, not a typical household on the bay. A 0.27% share of the city stack means other even-year windows hold almost all of the Corpus Christi book. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Texas still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Corpus Christi × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 versus the rest of the Corpus Christi book

0.27% of $48,968,898 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $48,835,530. Put another way, about 0.27% of Corpus Christi, TX itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.7% were not. Those percentages are $133,368 divided by $48,968,898 and $48,835,530 divided by $48,968,898. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.27%) and row volume (137 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 0.27% as Corpus Christi’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 $133,368 does not measure

137 itemized contributions totaling $133,368 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 CORPUS CHRISTI. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Corpus Christi versus other Texas cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $973 uses only $133,368 and 137 rows.

$133,368 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city CORPUS CHRISTI. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Texas file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi and 2008 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi, TX hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Corpus Christi, TX, the 2008 election cycle, Texas 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/tx-corpus-christi-2008-donations/.

Questions

How much did Corpus Christi, TX donors itemize in 2008?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Corpus Christi, TX total $133,368 in the 2008 cycle, across 137 contribution records. The same city label totals $48,968,898 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.27% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Corpus Christi, TX city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $48,968,898 covers every cycle in the table for CORPUS CHRISTI. The 2008 filter is $133,368 from 137 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $48,835,530. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Corpus Christi, TX 2008 donations stay in Texas?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Corpus Christi, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $133,368 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 Corpus Christi, TX contributions were itemized in 2008?

137 itemized contribution records sum to $133,368. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $973 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.