UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD

Union Pacific Railroad as stored employer text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Union Pacific Railroad and 2008 — sum to $713,957. 2,240 itemized contributions and 227 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 Union Pacific Railroad hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred twenty-seven donors and 2,240 lines in 2008 sit under the three-word Union Pacific Railroad employer string. That is a high receipts-per-person ratio: many Schedule A rows on a modest unique-donor count. Shorter UNION PACIFIC rows are a neighboring key if stored separately. UNION PACIFIC, UP RAILROAD, UNION PACIFIC CORP, and NORFOLK SOUTHERN or other railroad employer strings are other keys.

11.4% of the Union Pacific Railroad roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,248,507 ($6.25 million). The 2008 slice of $713,957 is about 11.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 88.6% ($5,534,550). Treating 2008 as the Union Pacific Railroad FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $6,248,507 as the denominator for the 11.4% 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 $6,248,507.

Questions

How much did Union Pacific Railroad donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $713,957 in itemized individual contributions for the Union Pacific Railroad grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 2,240 contributions and 227 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,248,507 all-cycle figure.

What share of Union Pacific Railroad FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,248,507. The 2008 cell of $713,957 is about 11.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 88.6% ($5,534,550) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Union Pacific Railroad hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $713,957 the Union Pacific Railroad PAC total for 2008?

No. $713,957 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Union Pacific Railroad in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 2,240 contributions came from 227 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Union Pacific Railroad 2008 join?

Open Union Pacific Railroad 2008 for the cycle overlay, Union Pacific Railroad 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.