Cisco Systems and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Cisco Systems crossed with 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Cisco Systems and 2008 — sum to $345,558. The cell holds 344 itemized contributions and 160 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 Cisco Systems hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. One hundred sixty donors and 344 Cisco Systems lines in 2008 describe a named-tech employer cell. People who typed only Cisco without Systems may sit on a shorter key. Federal network-equipment awards on USAspending are not these campaign receipts. CISCO, CISCO SYSTEMS INC, and generic ENGINEER or SOFTWARE occupation strings are other keys.

6.3% of the Cisco Systems roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,443,189 ($5.4 million). The 2008 slice of $345,558 is about 6.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.7%. Treating 2008 as the Cisco Systems FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,443,189 as the denominator for the 6.3% 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 $5,443,189.

344 contributions from 160 donors

Dividing $345,558 by 344 contributions yields about $1,005 per itemized gift. Dividing by 160 donors yields about $2,160 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.1. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

160 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Cisco Systems 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Cisco Systems is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Cisco Systems to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $345,558 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 344 contributions, the 160 unique donors, and the 6.3% share of $5,443,189.

Limits of the Cisco Systems × 2008 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $345,558. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a computer-equipment NAICS total and not a Cisco PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 160 donors, and 344 contributions. CISCO, CISCO SYSTEMS INC, and generic ENGINEER or SOFTWARE occupation strings are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Cisco Systems and 2008 together

Start with $345,558, then Cisco Systems 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Cisco Systems, 2008, $345,558, 344 contributions, 160 donors, 6.3% of $5,443,189, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 6.3% share, the 160-donor count, and the $1,005 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Cisco Systems donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $345,558 in itemized individual contributions for the Cisco Systems grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 344 contributions and 160 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,443,189 all-cycle figure.

What share of Cisco Systems FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,443,189. The 2008 cell of $345,558 is about 6.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.7% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Cisco Systems hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Cisco Systems’s PAC or an official account?

No. $345,558 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Cisco Systems. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a computer-equipment NAICS total and not a Cisco PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Cisco Systems 2008 join?

Open Cisco Systems 2008 for the cycle overlay, Cisco Systems 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.