Electrical Contractor political money — 2008 cycle

2008 receipts tagged Electrical Contractor

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $670,223, 726 contributions, and 353 donors. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR is a trade-business title as typed. FEC.gov does not verify a contractor license, a journeyman card, or a shop payroll. The occupation hub is $6,243,964 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 10.7% ($670,223 of $6,243,964). The remainder, $5,573,741, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. 353 donor keys and 726 lines describe this presidential-cycle cell. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $670,223.

The occupation-side denominator $6,243,964

$6,243,964 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. Electrician, Contractor, and Electrical are other occupation keys if stored separately. Adding those keys to $6,243,964 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR is a trade-business title as typed. FEC.gov does not verify a contractor license, a journeyman card, or a shop payroll.

Open Electrical Contractor donations for the $6,243,964 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures. A 10.7% year share of this occupation total means the rest of the labeled money sits outside 2008.

Mean gift $923 and 2.1 gifts per donor

Dividing $670,223 by 726 contributions yields about $923 per gift. Dividing by 353 donors yields about $1,899 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.1 (726 ÷ 353). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles, and not a contractor-license roster or a union dispatch file.

353 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 353 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell. People who left occupation blank or used a nearby spelling are not in $670,223.

Electrical Contractor is not a contractor-license roster or a union dispatch file

A 10.7% share of Electrical Contractor-coded dollars from 2008 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $670,223 as itemized individual receipts tagged ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there. Correlation is not causation.

FEC.gov citation for Electrical Contractor in 2008

A complete claim names Electrical Contractor and 2008, then $670,223, 726 contributions, 353 donors, and 10.7% of $6,243,964, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 353 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Electrical Contractor and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $923 and mean per donor $1,899 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a contractor-license roster or a union dispatch file.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Electrical Contractor donations rolls every cycle into one ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the Electrical Contractor × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 726 receipts and $670,223. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Moving from this cell to the parent hubs

The occupation hub still holds $5,573,741 outside 2008. Most of the $6,243,964 roll is not this cycle’s cell when 10.7% is the year share. Electrician, Contractor, and Electrical are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.1.

Presidential cycles still use the same occupation string. What 2008 changes is the window, not the spelling of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. Keep Electrical Contractor in the title and the H1 so the page is not mistaken for a generic 2008 roundup.

Questions

How many Electrical Contractor donors itemized in 2008?

353 donor keys and 726 contributions, totaling $670,223. About 2.1 gifts per donor and $923 per gift are arithmetic on those integers, not medians. The occupation total is $6,243,964, so 2008 is 10.7%. Source FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered and are not a license census.

Does this count every electrical contractor who donated in 2008?

No. The 353 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR in 2008. Filers who wrote Electrician, Contractor, or Electrical are other occupation keys. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $670,223 on 726 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Electrical Contractor occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

10.7%: $670,223 of $6,243,964. The remaining $5,573,741 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $670,223 divided by $6,243,964, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

How should a researcher cite Electrical Contractor in 2008?

Name occupation Electrical Contractor, cycle 2008, $670,223, 726 contributions, and 353 donors, source FEC.gov. Add 10.7% of $6,243,964 if the occupation share is in scope. Do not convert donor keys into a license census. Live hubs: Electrical Contractor donations and 2008 election cycle.