Ford Motor Company and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Why Ford Motor Company and 2008 share a page

Ford Motor Company pages without a year mix every even-year window. 2008 pages without this string mix every employer and occupation. The reason this file exists is the overlap: $478,436 from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts tagged FORD MOTOR COMPANY in 2008. 1,088 contributions and 160 donors are the volume counts. Recipients are not in this packet.

The stored employer label is automaker employer text. The Commission does not certify that each filer worked there, held that title, or used a legal entity name. Neighboring spellings remain other keys. Ford motor company pac, a vehicle-manufacturing naics bucket, or ford as a corporate treasury would be a different dataset or a different string.

Keep $5,741,013 on the industry hub and keep the 2008 cycle hub for the year without this filter. The overlap — and only the overlap — is $478,436.

2008 as a slice of $5,741,013

$5,741,013 is the all-cycle total stored for FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Subtract $478,436 and $5,262,577 remains in other cycles (91.7%). 2008 therefore accounts for about 8.3% of the grouping. That percentage is arithmetic on two packet facts, not a ranking against other employers.

Do not read 8.3% as intensity, influence, or a planned 2008 campaign. It is $478,436 divided by $5,741,013. The industry hub is where the other windows live. The 8.3% ratio is $478,436 divided by $5,741,013. Other even-year joins for FORD MOTOR COMPANY are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $5,262,577. Citing 2008 as if it were the Ford Motor Company lifetime total would overstate this cell by $5,262,577.

Volume: 1,088 lines, 160 identities

1,088 itemized contributions and 160 unique donors sit behind $478,436. Average gift size is about $440; average dollars per donor about $2,990; lines per donor about 6.8. Averages hide skew.

Unique donors are FEC contributor keys for this string and cycle. They are not staff headcount for Ford Motor Company. This packet does not publish names. Open the overlay for rows; do not invent them here. A mean of $440 per itemized line and $2,990 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 1,088 contributions remaining larger than 160 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

The two-year 2008 window

FEC election cycles are two-year spans. 2008 covers that even-year window, so receipts from the odd year before the election can sit in $478,436. This packet does not split those years.

The 2008 hub is the place to see every other employer string that year. This page keeps the Ford Motor Company filter on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, no percentage of national 2008 giving is claimed. FEC cycle 2008 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $478,436 if they were itemized against FORD MOTOR COMPANY. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

Form text is not a payroll file

FEC employer and occupation fields are typed by filers. FORD MOTOR COMPANY is stored as written for this grouping. The Commission does not verify employment, tribal enrollment, professional licenses, or corporate identity on this aggregate. Ford Motor Company here is automaker employer text.

PAC filings, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other tables. USAspending obligations are another database entirely. $478,436 does not fund federal awards, and federal awards do not explain $478,436. Two datasets can share a name without sharing a payment trail. Ford Motor Company as automaker employer text can appear in contracting databases under similar names. Those obligation tables are not this $478,436. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards or the reverse.

How to quote $478,436

A complete quote names both sides: Ford Motor Company and 2008, $478,436, 1,088 itemized contributions, 160 unique donors, FEC.gov. Add 8.3% of $5,741,013 if the lifetime context matters. Omit any number that is not in those facts.

The overlay Ford Motor Company 2008 is for rows. The Ford Motor Company hub is for other years. The 2008 election cycle is for other strings. All FEC ties is the join index. Use every one of those hrefs; do not substitute a donor URL. Quote both keys: Ford Motor Company and 2008. Quote the dollars: $478,436. Quote the volume: 1,088 contributions, 160 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave NAICS codes and named donors out unless a later overlay supplies them.

Questions

How much did Ford Motor Company donors give in 2008?

The Ford Motor Company × 2008 cell is $478,436. FEC.gov counted 1,088 itemized individual contributions from 160 unique donors. That is the join, not the $5,741,013 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $478,436, 1,088 contributions, and 160 donors in the Ford Motor Company × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,741,013.

What share of Ford Motor Company FEC money is 2008?

About 8.3%. $478,436 divided by $5,741,013 is the 2008 share for this exact string. $5,262,577 (91.7%) sits in other cycles. No national 2008 denominator is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source for $478,436, 1,088 contributions, and 160 donors in the Ford Motor Company × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,741,013.

Does this include only currently employed Ford Motor Company donors?

No. 160 unique donors matched FORD MOTOR COMPANY in 2008. Retirees, household members, and former workers can reuse the string. Neighboring spellings are other keys. The total remains $478,436. FEC.gov is the source for $478,436, 1,088 contributions, and 160 donors in the Ford Motor Company × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,741,013.

Where is the overlay for the Ford Motor Company 2008 join?

The overlay path is the Ford Motor Company 2008 link. The industry hub drops the year. The 2008 election cycle drops the string. All FEC ties is the directory of joins. Dollars: $478,436. FEC.gov is the source for $478,436, 1,088 contributions, and 160 donors in the Ford Motor Company × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,741,013.