BUSINESSMAN

Businessman occupation × the 2008 cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Businessman and 2008 — sum to $1,955,989. The cell holds 1,561 itemized contributions and 371 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Businessman hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Businessman is a gendered status title as typed. Business Owner without that word is a different grouping. BUSINESS OWNER, BUSINESSWOMAN, ENTREPRENEUR, and OWNER remain other keys if stored separately. Open Businessman 2008 for the overlay rows, Businessman for other cycles, and the 2008 election cycle for other employer strings.

Dividing $1,955,989 by 1,561 contributions yields about $1,253.04 per itemized gift. Dividing by 371 donors yields about $5,272.21 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.2. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical salary.

A thin 2008 slice of a large Businessman book

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $88,737,341. The 2008 slice of $1,955,989 is about 2.20% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 97.80%. Treating 2008 as the entire Businessman FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $88,737,341 as the denominator for the 2.20% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $88,737,341.

Questions

How much did Businessman donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,955,989 in itemized individual contributions for the Businessman grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,561 contributions and 371 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $88,737,341 all-cycle figure.

What share of Businessman FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $88,737,341. The 2008 cell of $1,955,989 is about 2.20% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 97.80% on the industry hub. Do not treat 2008 as the whole Businessman story.

Is Businessman the same as Business Owner?

No. Businessman and Business Owner are separate filer-entered strings. This 2008 cell uses only Businessman. The FEC does not verify that the filer owned a firm. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Businessman hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Businessman 2008 join?

Open Businessman 2008 for the cycle overlay, Businessman for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON names the join; the overlay holds the rows.