Fort Worth, TX political money — 2008 cycle

How Fort Worth, TX meets the 2008 election cycle

$424,991 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city FORT WORTH with state TX, and election cycle 2008. The match is $424,991 across 259 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $117,875,456. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.36% of Fort Worth, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $117,450,465 (99.64%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Fort Worth, TX. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under FORT WORTH. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Fort Worth, TX with every other donor city in the United States. The 259 rows and $424,991 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. Fort Worth, TX here is the string that survived aggregation as FORT WORTH in TX. 2008 is a presidential FEC cycle: a two-year window that includes a presidential general election. That calendar fact does not explain why Fort Worth, TX donors itemized $424,991. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

The Fort Worth, TX side of the join

The city aggregate for Fort Worth, TX is $117,875,456 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 $424,991 from 2008 and the $117,450,465 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level TX campaign-finance pages still mix Fort Worth with every other city in TX.

The stored city is the City of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas. Dallas, Arlington, and Denton are not rolled into FORT WORTH. State TX stays on the citation so Fort Worth, TX is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $117,875,456 is the TX key only. For Fort Worth, TX, the city stack is $117,875,456 while this cycle is $424,991 (0.36%). Use the city hub for Fort Worth, TX without a year filter; use this tie for Fort Worth in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. FORT WORTH is not recoded from a DALLAS city field.

The 2008 cycle side for TX filers in Fort Worth

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, Fort Worth, TX donors itemized $424,991 on 259 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,641 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 TX still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Fort Worth × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 259 itemized contribution records produced $424,991. Mean about $1,641 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

2008 versus the rest of Fort Worth

0.36% of $117,875,456 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.36% of Fort Worth, TX's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.64% were not. Those percentages are $424,991 divided by $117,875,456 and $117,450,465 divided by $117,875,456. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.36%) and row volume (259 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 0.36% as Fort Worth's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Tarrant County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $424,991.

Counts, dollars, and what they omit

259 itemized contributions totaling $424,991 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 FORT WORTH. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Fort Worth versus other TX cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,641 uses only the two numbers in the join: $424,991 and 259 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 $424,991 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed FORT WORTH is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Fort Worth.

Caveats on a geographic-cycle join

This page does not rank Fort Worth against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion in TX. Two columns matched. Contributor city is not campaign city. A TX address does not mean the money supported a TX candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Fort Worth, TX 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 Fort Worth, 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.

Questions

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Fort Worth, TX total $424,991 in the 2008 cycle, across 259 contribution records. The same city label totals $117,875,456 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.36% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Fort Worth, TX city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $117,875,456 covers every cycle in the table for FORT WORTH. The 2008 filter is $424,991 from 259 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $117,450,465. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Fort Worth, TX 2008 donations stay in TX?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Fort Worth, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $424,991 by office, state of the committee, or party. A TX city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of TX races.

How many Fort Worth, TX contributions were itemized in 2008?

259 itemized contribution records sum to $424,991. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,641 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.