DENTIST

Dentist as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Dentist and 2008 — sum to $1,631,650. 2,271 itemized contributions and 875 unique donors produced it. 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 Dentist hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Dentist is a job title stored in the industry grouping, not a state dental-board roster. Eight hundred seventy-five donors in 2008 are matching text, not a headcount of active licenses. Practice names typed instead of the title sit on employer pages. DDS, DMD, ORTHODONTIST, DENTAL PRACTICE, and named dental offices are other keys. This page is the one-word Dentist string.

4.4% of the Dentist roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $37,234,621 ($37.2 million). The 2008 slice of $1,631,650 is about 4.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.6% ($35,602,971). Treating 2008 as the Dentist FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $37,234,621 as the denominator for the 4.4% 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 $37,234,621.

Questions

How much did Dentist donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,631,650 in itemized individual contributions for the Dentist grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 2,271 contributions and 875 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $37,234,621 all-cycle figure.

What share of Dentist FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $37,234,621. The 2008 cell of $1,631,650 is about 4.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.6% ($35,602,971) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Dentist hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Dentist donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Dentist. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $1,631,650 from 875 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Dentist 2008 join?

Open Dentist 2008 for the cycle overlay, Dentist 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 file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.