Midland, TX political money — 2008 cycle

Reading Midland against cycle 2008

$426,690 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city MIDLAND with state TX, and election cycle 2008. The match is $426,690 across 325 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $82,334,215. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.52% of Midland, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $81,907,525 (99.48%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Midland, TX. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under MIDLAND. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Midland, TX with every other donor city in the United States. The 325 rows and $426,690 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. Midland, TX here is the string that survived aggregation as MIDLAND 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 Midland, TX donors itemized $426,690. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Midland's city aggregate, without a year filter

The city aggregate for Midland, TX is $82,334,215 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 $426,690 from 2008 and the $81,907,525 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level TX campaign-finance pages still mix Midland with every other city in TX.

The stored city is the City of Midland in Midland County, Texas. Odessa, Lubbock, and Fort Worth are not rolled into MIDLAND. State TX stays on the citation so Midland, TX is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $82,334,215 is the TX key only. For Midland, TX, the city stack is $82,334,215 while this cycle is $426,690 (0.52%). Use the city hub for Midland, TX without a year filter; use this tie for Midland in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. Midland and Odessa share a basin and not an FEC city string.

Isolating Midland inside the 2008 cycle hub

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, Midland, TX donors itemized $426,690 on 325 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,313 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 Midland × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 325 itemized contribution records produced $426,690. Mean about $1,313 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

Where $426,690 sits inside $82.3 million

0.52% of $82,334,215 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.52% of Midland, TX's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.48% were not. Those percentages are $426,690 divided by $82,334,215 and $81,907,525 divided by $82,334,215. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.52%) and row volume (325 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 0.52% as Midland's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Midland County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $426,690.

Schedule A city strings and missing tables

325 itemized contributions totaling $426,690 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 MIDLAND. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Midland versus other TX cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,313 uses only the two numbers in the join: $426,690 and 325 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 $426,690 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed MIDLAND is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into Midland.

Citing this pair on FEC.gov terms

This page does not rank Midland 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 Midland, 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 Midland, 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 Midland, TX donors give in the 2008 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Midland, TX total $426,690 in the 2008 cycle, across 325 contribution records. The same city label totals $82,334,215 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.52% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Midland, TX city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $82,334,215 covers every cycle in the table for MIDLAND. The 2008 filter is $426,690 from 325 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $81,907,525. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Midland, TX 2008 donations stay in TX?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Midland, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $426,690 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 Midland, TX contributions were itemized in 2008?

325 itemized contribution records sum to $426,690. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,313 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.