Ft Worth, TX political money — 2008 cycle

Two FEC columns: FT WORTH and 2008

Column A is city FT WORTH in TX. Column B is cycle 2008. Where both are true, the aggregate is $206,439 and the row count is 141. Column A alone is $16,004,978. 2008 is 1.29% of that city total; $15,798,539 (98.7%) is every other cycle. A larger minority of the city stack than many city-cycle joins, still well under half.

The Ft Worth, TX hub still mixes cycles. The 2008 hub still mixes cities. This ties path keeps both filters. 141 and $206,439 are intersection facts. They do not show why a gift was made, who received it, or whether the committee was based in Texas. Correlation of city and year is not causation.

2008 is stored as a presidential two-year FEC cycle with a presidential general in the window. That classification does not interpret $206,439. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Ft Worth, TX without a year filter

$16,004,978 accumulates itemized individual receipts under Ft Worth, TX for all cycles in the extract. Include 2008's $206,439 and exclude it and $15,798,539 remains. The figure is not a census of residents. Texas statewide pages still include cities other than Ft Worth.

The stored city is the FEC string FT WORTH in Texas — Fort Worth as abbreviated on itemized receipts. Dallas, Arlington, and Fort Worth spelled out as FORT WORTH would be a different city label if that spelling survived aggregation separately. Only the TX key is in $16,004,978. Compare the stack ($16,004,978) with the 2008 cell ($206,439, 1.29%) rather than treating them as the same number. City hub = no year. This page = Ft Worth in 2008. Committees on the other side of the receipt can be in any state.

Inside the 2008 presidential cycle

The Commission tags receipts with a two-year cycle. 2008 is that tag. Ft Worth, TX donors itemized $206,439 on 141 lines, about $1,464 per line. The mean is not a median and not a person-level average. Unique donors are not reported in these facts.

Leave the national 2008 page for other cities and the Texas page for other years. This file isolates the pair. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee transfers are other datasets. 141 itemized rows is a sizable absolute count of receipts for this join. Linked hubs remain the wider tables.

Keep cityTotal and cycleTotal apart. $206,439 is the 2008 cell for Ft Worth, TX: itemized individual contributions in that two-year FEC window only, across 141 records. $16,004,978 is the same city string across every cycle in this extract. Subtracting them leaves $15,798,539 in other even-year windows. Citing $16,004,978 as a 2008 figure mixes the city hub into this join. Citing $206,439 as the lifetime Ft Worth total mixes the join into the city hub. 141 is cycleContributions for 2008 only; the packet has no all-cycle row count, so 141 cannot be turned into a share of citywide gifts. 1.29% is dollars only — $206,439 divided by $16,004,978 — not a share of Texas and not a share of the national 2008 cycle. PAC receipts, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other FEC tables; they are not mixed into $206,439 or $16,004,978. Donor names are not in the packet and are not invented. Source: FEC.gov.

Dollar share of Ft Worth's stack

$206,439 ÷ $16,004,978 = 1.29%. $15,798,539 ÷ $16,004,978 = 98.7%. So about 1.29% of Ft Worth, TX itemized individual dollars in this aggregate carry the 2008 tag, and about 98.7% do not. Denominators are the city stack, not Texas and not the national 2008 cycle.

1.29% (money) and 141 (rows) are parallel facts. Without an all-cycle row count, a row share cannot be computed. Do not recast 1.29% as Ft Worth's portion of nationwide 2008 receipts; that nationwide figure is not in the packet.

Contribution rows versus people

Operationally this page is 141 itemized contributions totaling $206,439. Repeat appearances and spelling variants of FT WORTH are possible. Unique persons are not derived. Ft Worth is not ordered against other Texas cities here.

$1,464 = $206,439 / 141. Occupation, industry, and committee dimensions are other ties. This cell does not itemize recipients. Nearby suburbs typed under other city names are not folded into Ft Worth.

Nonpartisan reading of the join

No city ranking, no claim that 2008 was a wave, no stand-in for Texas opinion. Donor city is not recipient city. TX on the receipt is not a Texas-only destination. Amended FEC reports can change the totals. Newer hub extracts win if they conflict.

Not included: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, federal award dollars. Adjacent tables: Ft Worth, TX; 2008 election cycle; Texas campaign finance; all FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

Questions

What did Ft Worth, TX itemize in the 2008 cycle?

$206,439 across 141 itemized individual contribution records. The citywide all-cycle total is $16,004,978, making 2008 1.29% of that stack. Data: FEC.gov aggregates by city and cycle.

Why is the Ft Worth total ($16,004,978) larger than $206,439?

Because $16,004,978 sums every cycle for FT WORTH in TX, while $206,439 is the 2008 filter only (141 gifts). Other cycles account for $15,798,539. The city hub shows the sum; this tie shows 2008.

Is $206,439 from Ft Worth confined to Texas candidates?

These facts do not allocate by candidate or committee state. Donor city is Ft Worth, TX. Recipients can be any FEC-registered committee. A TX city field is not a roster of Texas races.

How many 2008 itemized gifts list Ft Worth, TX?

141 records totaling $206,439, a mean of about $1,464 per record. Records are not unique donors. Unitemized and independent-expenditure activity is omitted. No unique-person count is available in this packet.