General Electric Co political money — 2008 cycle

Two keys: GENERAL ELECTRIC CO and 2008

Drop either key and the number changes. Drop 2008 and the General Electric Co hub shows $13,679,946. Drop General Electric Co and the 2008 hub shows every other stored employer for that window — a total this packet does not publish. Keep both keys and the extract returns $668,782 on 579 lines from 178 donors. Cite FEC.gov for the intersection; do not treat either hub as a substitute for the join.

Filers who wrote GE or a subsidiary name are other keys. This join is the stored employer GENERAL ELECTRIC CO in the 2008 window. Exact string matching is the method. GE, GENERAL ELECTRIC, GE COMPANY, and named GE subsidiaries are not rolled into $668,782. LobbyVault does not recode filer text into NAICS. Cite FEC.gov.

Section 1 states the relationship. Later sections unpack the lifetime grouping, the receipt arithmetic, the two-year window, and the caveats. The overlay General Electric Co 2008 is the row view of this cell.

Lifetime General Electric Co dollars versus the 2008 slice

$13,679,946 minus $668,782 leaves $13,011,164 in other cycles, or 95.1% of the stored book. 4.9% is the 2008 share. A share is a quotient, not a trend claim. This packet has no prior-cycle dollar for comparison, so no percent change is stated. Other even-year amounts are not invented here.

$13,679,946 is not revenue, not assets, and not a political budget. It is the sum of itemized individual contributions that grouped to GENERAL ELECTRIC CO in this table. The General Electric Co hub is the place to see other years. This tie exists so 2008 is not swallowed by that lifetime figure.

Volume inside the General Electric Co 2008 cell

About $1,155 per contribution and about $3,757 per donor follow from dividing $668,782 by 579 and by 178. Lines per donor average about 3.3. High line counts relative to identities usually mean repeat gifts; low line counts can mean fewer repeats. Those readings are still arithmetic, not a donor strategy. They are not medians and not a party split.

This page does not name donors. 178 is a count. Retirees and relatives can share a stored workplace. Unitemized gifts are absent. PAC disbursements are a different FEC table and are not inside $668,782.

2008 is a two-year FEC tag

On FEC.gov, 2008 is a presidential cycle covering two calendar years. Searchers who want a single November figure will not find that split here. Both years of the window can feed $668,782. Dates live on the overlay, not in this snapshot. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number.

Open 2008 election cycle for the year without the General Electric Co filter. Open General Electric Co for the string without the year. Open All FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the internal map for this join.

Caveats that travel with the dollars

The page is not a GE PAC, a corporate treasury gift, or a manufacturing NAICS total. Sharing General Electric Co and 2008 does not create a federal award. USAspending is a different dataset. Do not add $668,782 to obligation totals. Do not treat $668,782 as proof of influence. A join is two fields. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements remain outside this cell.

If FEC.gov or the live hubs later show a different $668,782, 579, or 178, the newer extract wins. Neighboring strings — GE, GENERAL ELECTRIC, GE COMPANY, and named GE subsidiaries — remain other pages. This file stays on one employer/industry grouping and one cycle.

Citation line for General Electric Co, 2008

General Electric Co, 2008, $668,782, 579 itemized individual contributions, 178 donors, 4.9% of $13,679,946, source FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle. Keep GENERAL ELECTRIC CO as the stored label. Keep neighboring spellings out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

Then link General Electric Co 2008, General Electric Co, 2008 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Do not present this JSON as a filing. It is a packet snapshot of one cell.

Questions

How many General Electric Co contributions were itemized in 2008?

579 itemized individual contributions from 178 donors sum to $668,782 for the stored string GENERAL ELECTRIC CO in the 2008 cycle. Those counts are extract fields, not a payroll census and not a PAC total. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

What is the all-cycle General Electric Co total?

$13,679,946 across every cycle in this table. The 2008 join of $668,782 is about 4.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold $13,011,164. The industry hub is the year index; this page is one year cell for the same stored string.

Does General Electric Co include GE?

Not in $668,782. Only GENERAL ELECTRIC CO is in this cell. GE, GENERAL ELECTRIC, GE COMPANY, and named GE subsidiaries are other keys unless they grouped to this exact string. LobbyVault does not merge them into a sector total on this page. Exact-match grouping is the method.

Can General Electric Co donations be read as 2008 federal contracts?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards do not fund each other in this dataset. $668,782 is Schedule A itemized giving grouped to GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. The packet publishes no award amount and no contract identifier. Cite FEC.gov. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO in 2008 is $668,782 on 579 itemized receipts from 178 donors; the all-cycle grouping is $13,679,946.