Candidate occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Joining CANDIDATE to the 2008 cycle

Candidate in 2008 is $2,053,571 on 428 itemized lines from 36 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2008 holds 12.4% of all-cycle Candidate dollars ($2,053,571 of $16,508,299). That is a material cycle share, still a minority of the occupation total. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

428 contributions from 36 donors is a high repeat-itemization pattern: many itemized rows per person inside this cycle filter. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 36 people still used that title after 2008.

This page is not a restatement of the Candidate hub or of the 2008 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $2,053,571.

Reading CANDIDATE without merging sibling titles

Filers who typed candidate as occupation produced the all-cycle occupation total of $16,508,299. CANDIDATE as an occupation often appears on a candidate’s own itemized gifts and on gifts from other people who used that word. This page does not classify rows as self-contributions. A small donor count with many contributions is a repeat-itemization pattern, not a count of people on the 2008 ballot. The occupation is not a ballot-line count, a principal-campaign total raised from the public, or a party nomination list.

Reading 2008 without treating it as all Candidate money

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Candidate. $2,053,571 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

428 contributions from 36 donors is a high repeat-itemization pattern: many itemized rows per person inside this cycle filter. About 11.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $4,798; mean per donor about $57,044. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,053,571. Three numbers define the Candidate × 2008 cell: dollars $2,053,571, contribution rows 428, unique donors 36. Share of occupation dollars is 12.4% of $16,508,299.

How not to read Candidate money in 2008

Matching Candidate with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Candidate donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a ballot-line count, a principal-campaign total raised from the public, or a party nomination list.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CANDIDATE as an occupation often appears on a candidate’s own itemized gifts and on gifts from other people who used that word. This page does not classify rows as self-contributions. A small donor count with many contributions is a repeat-itemization pattern, not a count of people on the 2008 ballot. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $2,053,571 funded USAspending obligations.

Linked Candidate and 2008 tables

Candidate donations holds the $16,508,299 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Candidate. All occupations places CANDIDATE beside other titles without merging sibling strings (POLITICIAN, OFFICEHOLDER, and RETIRED). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,053,571 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Candidate dollars ($16,508,299). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,053,571, 428 contributions, 36 donors, 12.4% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Using the Candidate 2008 figures in a citation

A usable sentence names both sides: occupation CANDIDATE, cycle 2008, $2,053,571 itemized, 428 contributions, 36 donors, source FEC.gov. $2.1 million is a rounded form of $2,053,571.

Do not cite $16,508,299 as the 2008 figure. $16,508,299 is all-cycle Candidate. Do not cite a cycle-wide total from this page; $2,053,571 is Candidate only.

Questions

How much did Candidate-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Candidate grouping’s 2008 cell is $2,053,571 in itemized individual contributions, from 428 contributions and 36 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $16,508,299 all-cycle occupation total.

Is this how much candidates raised from voters?

No. It is itemized individual receipts where the occupation field is CANDIDATE, not a campaign’s total receipts from the public. The 2008 cycle filter on Candidate is $2,053,571, 428 contributions, and 36 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $16,508,299. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Candidate FEC money fell in 2008?

About 12.4%. $2,053,571 divided by $16,508,299 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 87.6% ($14,454,728) on the occupation hub. See the Candidate occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Candidate 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $2,053,571 is itemized receipts tagged CANDIDATE in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.