Federal Government and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Federal Government employer text × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Federal Government and 2008 — sum to $265,044. 420 itemized contributions and 196 unique donors produced it. 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 Federal Government hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Federal Government is a catch-all employer line, not an agency roster. One hundred ninety-six donors and 420 lines in 2008 are people who typed that generic phrase. Filers who named a department, a service branch, or Congress sit on those more specific keys. This join does not roll those keys into the generic string. US GOVERNMENT, U.S. GOVERNMENT, named cabinet departments, US ARMY, and US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are other keys. This page is the two-word Federal Government string only.

6.7% of the Federal Government roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $3,970,312 ($4.0 million). The 2008 slice of $265,044 is about 6.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.3%. Treating 2008 as the Federal Government FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $3,970,312 as the denominator for the 6.7% 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 $3,970,312.

420 contributions from 196 donors

Dividing $265,044 by 420 contributions yields about $631 per itemized gift. Dividing by 196 donors yields about $1,352 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.

196 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 Federal Government 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Federal Government 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 Federal Government to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $265,044 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 420 contributions, the 196 unique donors, and the 6.7% share of $3,970,312.

Service or agency text, not appropriations

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $265,044. 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 public-administration NAICS total and not appropriated federal funds.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 196 donors, and 420 contributions. US GOVERNMENT, U.S. GOVERNMENT, named cabinet departments, US ARMY, and US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are other keys. This page is the two-word Federal Government string only. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Federal Government and 2008 together

Start with $265,044, then Federal Government 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Federal Government, 2008, $265,044, 420 contributions, 196 donors, 6.7% of $3,970,312, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 6.7% share, the 196-donor count, and the $631 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 Federal Government donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $265,044 in itemized individual contributions for the Federal Government grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 420 contributions and 196 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,970,312 all-cycle figure.

What share of Federal Government FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,970,312. The 2008 cell of $265,044 is about 6.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.3% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Federal Government hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Are these official Federal Government funds?

No. $265,044 is individual receipts whose employer text grouped to Federal Government. Appropriated funds and official accounts are not the payor. Punctuation variants and named agencies are other keys with their own totals. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Federal Government hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Federal Government 2008 join?

Open Federal Government 2008 for the cycle overlay, Federal Government 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.