Freelance and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Freelance as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Freelance and 2008 — sum to $258,250. 305 itemized contributions and 130 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 Freelance hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Freelance as an occupation or employer word collected 305 lines from 130 donors in 2008. The FEC does not verify independent-contractor status. People who typed a client company name sit on those firm keys. SELF EMPLOYED is a neighboring bucket and is not added here. FREELANCER, SELF EMPLOYED, CONSULTANT, WRITER, and named clients as employers are other keys. This page is the one-word Freelance string.

5.0% of the Freelance roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,174,808 ($5.2 million). The 2008 slice of $258,250 is about 5.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.0%. Treating 2008 as the Freelance FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,174,808 as the denominator for the 5.0% 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 $5,174,808.

305 contributions from 130 donors

Dividing $258,250 by 305 contributions yields about $847 per itemized gift. Dividing by 130 donors yields about $1,987 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

130 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 Freelance 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

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

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $258,250 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 305 contributions, the 130 unique donors, and the 5.0% share of $5,174,808.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $258,250. 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 gig-economy NAICS total and not a 1099 census.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 130 donors, and 305 contributions. FREELANCER, SELF EMPLOYED, CONSULTANT, WRITER, and named clients as employers are other keys. This page is the one-word Freelance string. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Freelance and 2008 together

Start with $258,250, then Freelance 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Freelance, 2008, $258,250, 305 contributions, 130 donors, 5.0% of $5,174,808, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 5.0% share, the 130-donor count, and the $847 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 Freelance donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $258,250 in itemized individual contributions for the Freelance grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 305 contributions and 130 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,174,808 all-cycle figure.

What share of Freelance FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,174,808. The 2008 cell of $258,250 is about 5.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.0% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Freelance hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Freelance donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Freelance. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $258,250 from 130 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Freelance 2008 join?

Open Freelance 2008 for the cycle overlay, Freelance 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.