Dentist occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Dentist receipts isolated to 2008

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation DENTIST and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $3,167,221 ($3.2 million), 4,154 contributions, and 2,347 donors. 8.6% of Dentist occupation dollars ($36,685,531) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. DENTIST is the occupation string. Specialty titles remain separate. The 2008 join does not verify active licenses or practice ownership. Dental association PACs are committee activity, not this occupation filter.

$36,685,531 is the Dentist all-cycle total

On the occupation side, $36,685,531 is the Dentist total across cycles. Sibling labels (ORTHODONTIST, DENTAL HYGIENIST, and ORAL SURGEON) stay on other pages. Dentist is not an ADA membership roll, a dental PAC independent-expenditure total, or a license census.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $36,685,531. The Dentist donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $3,167,221 is a slice of. Dividing $3,167,221 by 4,154 receipts yields about $762 per line; dividing by 2,347 donors yields about $1,349 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

2008 cycle dollars versus the Dentist occupation total

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Dentist. $3,167,221 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.

4,154 contributions from 2,347 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. About 1.8 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $762; mean per donor about $1,349. 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 $3,167,221. Three numbers define the Dentist × 2008 cell: dollars $3,167,221, contribution rows 4,154, unique donors 2,347. Share of occupation dollars is 8.6% of $36,685,531.

Public-record limits for Dentist in 2008

Matching Dentist with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Dentist donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an ADA membership roll, a dental PAC independent-expenditure total, or a license census.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DENTIST is the occupation string. Specialty titles remain separate. The 2008 join does not verify active licenses or practice ownership. Dental association PACs are committee activity, not this occupation filter. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $3,167,221 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Dentist donations hub is $36,685,531; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Dentist and 2008 tables

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Dentist. All occupations places DENTIST beside other titles without merging sibling strings (ORTHODONTIST, DENTAL HYGIENIST, and ORAL SURGEON). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $3,167,221 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Dentist dollars ($36,685,531). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $3,167,221, 4,154 contributions, 2,347 donors, 8.6% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use. Keep DENTIST as the occupation key and 2008 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $3,167,221.

Dentist 2008 versus other LobbyVault cuts

Occupation-by-state joins for Dentist are different pages and different dollars. This tie is occupation-by-cycle. $3,167,221 is not a state total and not a committee total.

All FEC ties is the inventory for those other pairs. All occupations is the inventory for titles. Neither page should be summed into $3,167,221.

Questions

How much did Dentist-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Dentist grouping’s 2008 cell is $3,167,221 in itemized individual contributions, from 4,154 contributions and 2,347 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $36,685,531 all-cycle occupation total.

Is this ADA PAC spending?

No. The join is itemized individual receipts tagged DENTIST, not a dental-association PAC. The 2008 cycle filter on Dentist is $3,167,221, 4,154 contributions, and 2,347 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $36,685,531. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Dentist FEC money fell in 2008?

About 8.6%. $3,167,221 divided by $36,685,531 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 91.4% ($33,518,310) on the occupation hub. See the Dentist occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Dentist 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. $3,167,221 is itemized receipts tagged DENTIST in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.