San Antonio, TX political money — 2008 cycle

The 2008 overlap for San Antonio, TX

$798,258 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city SAN ANTONIO with state TX, and election cycle 2008. The match is $798,258 across 555 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $203,304,043. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.39% of San Antonio, TX itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $202,505,785 (99.61%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of San Antonio, TX. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under SAN ANTONIO. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes San Antonio, TX with every other donor city in the United States. The 555 rows and $798,258 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. San Antonio, TX here is the string that survived aggregation as SAN ANTONIO 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 San Antonio, TX donors itemized $798,258. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

What the San Antonio, TX city book includes

The city aggregate for San Antonio, TX is $203,304,043 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 $798,258 from 2008 and the $202,505,785 from every other cycle in the same city file. State-level TX campaign-finance pages still mix San Antonio with every other city in TX.

The stored city is the City of San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas. Austin, New Braunfels, and Houston are not rolled into SAN ANTONIO. State TX stays on the citation so San Antonio, TX is not merged with a same-named place in another state. $203,304,043 is the TX key only. For San Antonio, TX, the city stack is $203,304,043 while this cycle is $798,258 (0.39%). Use the city hub for San Antonio, TX without a year filter; use this tie for San Antonio in 2008. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file anywhere in the FEC system. SAN ANTONIO in TX is not merged with a same-named string in another state.

2008 as an FEC cycle tag, not a local election

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, San Antonio, TX donors itemized $798,258 on 555 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,438 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 San Antonio × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. 555 itemized contribution records produced $798,258. Mean about $1,438 per row is division, not a median and not a unique-donor average. This URL is the intersection only.

Dollar share is not row share

0.39% of $203,304,043 is a slice of the city book, not a ranking against other cities. Put another way, about 0.39% of San Antonio, TX's itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.61% were not. Those percentages are $798,258 divided by $203,304,043 and $202,505,785 divided by $203,304,043. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.39%) and row volume (555 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 0.39% as San Antonio's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Bexar County is a geography note for readers; it is not a Census population weight on $798,258.

Itemized rows are not unique donors

555 itemized contributions totaling $798,258 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 SAN ANTONIO. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of San Antonio versus other TX cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,438 uses only the two numbers in the join: $798,258 and 555 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 $798,258 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed SAN ANTONIO is counted; a nearby suburb they typed instead is not recoded into San Antonio.

Correlation is not causation on this tie

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

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing San Antonio, TX total $798,258 in the 2008 cycle, across 555 contribution records. The same city label totals $203,304,043 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.39% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the San Antonio, TX city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $203,304,043 covers every cycle in the table for SAN ANTONIO. The 2008 filter is $798,258 from 555 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $202,505,785. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did San Antonio, TX 2008 donations stay in TX?

Not necessarily. Donor city is San Antonio, TX; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $798,258 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 San Antonio, TX contributions were itemized in 2008?

555 itemized contribution records sum to $798,258. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,438 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.