Doctor occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

How Doctor and 2008 meet in FEC itemized receipts

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string DOCTOR. The other is the 2008 federal election cycle. The match is $2,720,901, built from 3,385 contributions and 1,852 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. 2008 is a presidential-year FEC window. 3,385 contributions from 1,852 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. DOCTOR is the occupation string. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD, if typed that way, are other pages. The 2008 join does not verify medical licenses or distinguish M.D. from other doctorate uses of the word doctor. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $2,720,901. FEC individual receipts are not USAspending.gov awards; this page does not treat campaign gifts as federal spending.

What the DOCTOR label covers

Doctor donations is the occupation hub: $33,843,608 ($33.8 million) across cycles from filers who typed DOCTOR. Sibling strings (PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD) are not merged here. The occupation total is not an AMA census, a medical-board licensee file, or a physicians’ PAC.

2008’s $2,720,901 sits inside $33,843,608. Because 8.0% is the cycle’s share of occupation dollars, the leftover outside 2008 is $31,122,707 (92.0%). Open the occupation hub for the all-cycle table. This tie keeps 2008 as the second dimension.

What the 2008 election cycle contributes to Doctor

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Doctor. $2,720,901 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.

3,385 contributions from 1,852 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 $804; mean per donor about $1,469. 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 $2,720,901.

Limits of the Doctor 2008 occupation-cycle table

Matching Doctor with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Doctor donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an AMA census, a medical-board licensee file, or a physicians’ PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DOCTOR is the occupation string. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD, if typed that way, are other pages. The 2008 join does not verify medical licenses or distinguish M.D. from other doctorate uses of the word doctor. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $2,720,901 funded USAspending obligations.

Linked Doctor and 2008 tables

Doctor donations holds the $33,843,608 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Doctor. All occupations places DOCTOR beside other titles without merging sibling strings (PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,720,901 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Doctor dollars ($33,843,608). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,720,901, 3,385 contributions, 1,852 donors, 8.0% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Repeat gifts inside Doctor 2008

3,385 contributions from 1,852 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. Name matching can split or merge people across filings, so 1,852 is an index unique-person count for this pair, not a professional-association census.

3,385 is the row count. $2,720,901 is the dollar count. Neither is a license count. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Occupation labels remain filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Doctor-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Doctor grouping’s 2008 cell is $2,720,901 in itemized individual contributions, from 3,385 contributions and 1,852 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $33,843,608 all-cycle occupation total.

Are these all physicians?

The field is DOCTOR as typed. FEC aggregates do not encode medical license, so the string is not a verified physician census. The 2008 cycle filter on Doctor is $2,720,901, 3,385 contributions, and 1,852 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $33,843,608. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Doctor FEC money fell in 2008?

About 8.0%. $2,720,901 divided by $33,843,608 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 92.0% ($31,122,707) on the occupation hub. See the Doctor occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Doctor 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. $2,720,901 is itemized receipts tagged DOCTOR in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.