Farmer occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Where Farmer meets 2008

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation FARMER and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $3,880,887 ($3.9 million), 5,913 contributions, and 3,120 donors. 5.8% of Farmer occupation dollars ($66,637,048) 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. FARMER is the occupation string. RANCHER is a different key. The 2008 join does not map donors to FSA farm numbers, commodity programs, or acreage. Agriculture PACs are committee activity, not this occupation-cycle filter.

A Farmer bucket, not a license file

On the occupation side, $66,637,048 is the Farmer total across cycles. Sibling labels (RANCHER, AGRICULTURE, and FARMING) stay on other pages. Farmer is not a USDA farm-operator census, a crop-acreage file, or a merge with RANCHER.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $66,637,048. The Farmer donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $3,880,887 is a slice of. Dividing $3,880,887 by 5,913 receipts yields about $656 per line; dividing by 3,120 donors yields about $1,244 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

5,913 Farmer receipts in presidential-year 2008

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Farmer. $3,880,887 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.

5,913 contributions from 3,120 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. About 1.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $656; mean per donor about $1,244. 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 $3,880,887. Three numbers define the Farmer × 2008 cell: dollars $3,880,887, contribution rows 5,913, unique donors 3,120. Share of occupation dollars is 5.8% of $66,637,048.

FEC receipts are not federal awards

Matching Farmer with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Farmer donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a USDA farm-operator census, a crop-acreage file, or a merge with RANCHER.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FARMER is the occupation string. RANCHER is a different key. The 2008 join does not map donors to FSA farm numbers, commodity programs, or acreage. Agriculture PACs are committee activity, not this occupation-cycle filter. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $3,880,887 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Farmer donations hub is $66,637,048; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Farmer and 2008 tables

Farmer donations holds the $66,637,048 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Farmer. All occupations places FARMER beside other titles without merging sibling strings (RANCHER, AGRICULTURE, and FARMING). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $3,880,887 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Farmer dollars ($66,637,048). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $3,880,887, 5,913 contributions, 3,120 donors, 5.8% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Volume facts for Farmer in 2008

Keep 5,913 contributions and 3,120 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether Farmer in 2008 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. About 1.9 receipts per donor and about $1,244 per donor are ratios, not typical gifts.

The all-cycle occupation total $66,637,048 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did Farmer-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Farmer grouping’s 2008 cell is $3,880,887 in itemized individual contributions, from 5,913 contributions and 3,120 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $66,637,048 all-cycle occupation total.

Is Farmer the same as Rancher?

No. FARMER and RANCHER are separate filer-entered strings. This join uses only FARMER. The 2008 cycle filter on Farmer is $3,880,887, 5,913 contributions, and 3,120 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $66,637,048. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Farmer FEC money fell in 2008?

About 5.8%. $3,880,887 divided by $66,637,048 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 94.2% ($62,756,161) on the occupation hub. See the Farmer occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Farmer 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. $3,880,887 is itemized receipts tagged FARMER in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.