Richmond, VA political money — 2008 cycle

How Richmond, VA meets the 2008 election cycle

$127,623 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city RICHMOND with state VA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $127,623 across 137 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $89,411,164. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.14% of Richmond, VA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $89,283,541 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Richmond, VA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under RICHMOND. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Richmond, VA with every other donor city. The 137 rows and $127,623 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

The Richmond, VA side of the join

The city aggregate for Richmond, VA is $89,411,164 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 $127,623 from 2008 and the $89,283,541 from every other cycle in the same city file. Virginia campaign-finance pages still mix Richmond with every other city in VA.

The stored city is Richmond, the independent city that is Virginia’s capital. Richmond, California is a different state key. Henrico and Chesterfield are neighboring strings when filers typed county names. Keep VA on the citation. $89,411,164 is the VA key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Richmond, VA, the city stack is $89,411,164 while this cycle is $127,623 (0.14%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for Virginia filers in Richmond

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. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $127,623. Inside that window, Richmond, VA donors itemized $127,623 on 137 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $932 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.

One hundred thirty-seven receipts totaling $127,623 against an $89,411,164 Richmond book is about 0.14% of city dollars. One hundred thirty-seven 2008 lines is a mid-size presidential file. This page does not split the total by Virginia office. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Virginia still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Richmond × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 as a small share of Richmond’s city stack

0.14% of $89,411,164 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $89,283,541. Put another way, about 0.14% of Richmond, VA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $127,623 divided by $89,411,164 and $89,283,541 divided by $89,411,164. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.14%) and row volume (137 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 0.14% as Richmond’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $127,623 does not measure

137 itemized contributions totaling $127,623 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 RICHMOND. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Richmond versus other Virginia cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $932 uses only $127,623 and 137 rows.

$127,623 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city RICHMOND. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Virginia file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Richmond can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Richmond and 2008 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Richmond against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Virginia. Two columns matched. A VA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Virginia candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Richmond, VA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Richmond, VA, the 2008 election cycle, Virginia 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. Canonical path is /ties/va-richmond-2008-donations/.

Questions

How much did Richmond, VA donors give in 2008?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Richmond, VA total $127,623 in the 2008 cycle, across 137 contribution records. The same city label totals $89,411,164 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.14% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Richmond, VA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $89,411,164 covers every cycle in the table for RICHMOND. The 2008 filter is $127,623 from 137 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $89,283,541. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Richmond, VA 2008 donations stay in Virginia?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Richmond, VA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $127,623 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 Richmond, VA contributions were itemized in 2008?

137 itemized contribution records sum to $127,623. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $932 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.