Alexandria, VA political money — 2008 cycle

How Alexandria, VA meets the 2008 election cycle

$230,256 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ALEXANDRIA with state VA, and election cycle 2008. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Alexandria, VA city hub and the 2008 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Alexandria, VA in 2008.

299 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored ALEXANDRIA is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $770 ($230,256 ÷ 299). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2008 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $230,256. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $230,256 for the 2008 slice and $251.5 million for the Alexandria, VA book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Alexandria, VA side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city ALEXANDRIA in Virginia totals $251.5 million ($251,483,471). $230,256 is 0.1% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2008 was quiet in Alexandria; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $251,253,215 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Alexandria, VA table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in an independent city in Virginia. Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria's nearby ZIP strings — those neighbors are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into ALEXANDRIA. State VA stays on the citation so Alexandria is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $251.5 million is the VA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for Virginia filers in Alexandria

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 299 Alexandria, VA lines in that window produced $230,256. National 2008 activity — every city — lives on the 2008 election cycle hub, not here. A presidential label marks the even-year window; it is not a finding about turnout in Alexandria.

Virginia campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Alexandria. Do not add $230,256 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $230,256 into spending by Alexandria candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $230,256 and the $251.5 million city book.

What $230,256 does not measure

$230,256 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city ALEXANDRIA. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Virginia file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Alexandria can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed ALEXANDRIA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Alexandria. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 299 as lines that stored this string in 2008. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Alexandria and 2008 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $230,256 beside $251.5 million does not mean 2008 caused the city book or that Alexandria drove the 2008 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Alexandria, VA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Alexandria, VA, the 2008 election cycle, Virginia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $230,256 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in Virginia.

A 0.1% cut of the Alexandria stack

0.1% of $251.5 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $230,256 of the $251,483,471 city stack was tagged 2008, and $251,253,215 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $230,256 divided by $251,483,471 and $251,253,215 divided by $251,483,471. They are not shares of Virginia totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.1%) and row volume (299 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.1% as Alexandria's share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent midterm or presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Alexandria × 2008 only: $230,256, 299 receipts, mean about $770. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Alexandria, VA donors give in 2008?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city ALEXANDRIA and cycle 2008 total $230,256 across 299 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Alexandria, VA book of $251.5 million. Unitemized gifts and Virginia state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $230,256 all of Alexandria's federal political money?

No. $251.5 million ($251,483,471) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city ALEXANDRIA in VA. The 2008 slice is $230,256, 0.1% of that book. Other cycles hold $251,253,215. 299 is a 2008 receipt count, not a unique-donor count. The city hub holds the stack; this page holds the year.

Did Alexandria, VA 2008 donations stay in Virginia?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Alexandria, VA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $230,256 by office, state of the committee, or party. A VA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Virginia races.

How many Alexandria, VA contributions were itemized in 2008?

299 itemized contribution records sum to $230,256. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $770 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.