INSURANCE

Insurance as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Insurance and 2008 — sum to $764,209. 849 itemized contributions and 258 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 Insurance hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Insurance as a one-word grouping can collect agents, brokers, underwriters, and anyone who typed the industry word. Two hundred fifty-eight donors and 849 lines in 2008 matched that word. Named carriers typed as employer sit on firm pages. INSURANCE AGENT is a longer title with its own key. INSURANCE AGENT, INSURANCE BROKER, INSURANCE EXECUTIVE, and named carriers such as STATE FARM are other keys.

6.4% of the Insurance roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $11,967,484 ($12.0 million). The 2008 slice of $764,209 is about 6.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.6% ($11,203,275). Treating 2008 as the Insurance FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $11,967,484 as the denominator for the 6.4% 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 $11,967,484.

Questions

How much did Insurance donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $764,209 in itemized individual contributions for the Insurance grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 849 contributions and 258 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $11,967,484 all-cycle figure.

What share of Insurance FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $11,967,484. The 2008 cell of $764,209 is about 6.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.6% ($11,203,275) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Insurance 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 Insurance donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Insurance. 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 $764,209 from 258 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Insurance 2008 join?

Open Insurance 2008 for the cycle overlay, Insurance 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.