Intel political money — 2008 cycle

$328,122 as a two-field overlap

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Intel (INTEL) and 2008 — sum to $328,122. 387 itemized contributions and 88 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 Intel hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. INTEL is the one-word stored string. INTEL CORP, INTEL CORPORATION, and INTEL INC are other keys. The page is not Intel PAC disbursements and not a semiconductor NAICS total. Eighty-eight unique donors are not a headcount of chip-plant employees. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into $328,122. This URL exists because the two dimensions meet.

Other cycles hold $5,304,177

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,632,299 ($5.6 million). The 2008 slice of $328,122 is about 5.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.2% ($5,304,177). Treating 2008 as the Intel FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,632,299 as the denominator for the 5.8% 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 $5,632,299.

88 identities, not a workforce census

Dividing $328,122 by 387 contributions yields about $848 per itemized gift. Dividing by 88 donors yields about $3,729 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.4. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

88 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, members, or licensees. 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 Intel 2008 holds the rows. This packet does not publish donor names; do not invent them.

2008 is a two-year FEC tag

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Intel 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 Intel to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $328,122.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $328,122 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 387 contributions, the 88 unique donors, and the 5.8% share of $5,632,299.

Correlation is not causation

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $328,122. 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. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending obligations. Do not add $328,122 to federal spending figures.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 88 donors, and 387 contributions. INTEL is the one-word stored string. INTEL CORP, INTEL CORPORATION, and INTEL INC are other keys. The page is not Intel PAC disbursements and not a semiconductor NAICS total. Eighty-eight unique donors are not a headcount of chip-plant employees. Cite the exact stored string INTEL crossed with 2008. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

FEC.gov versus this Intel 2008 snapshot

Start with $328,122, then Intel 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Intel, 2008, $328,122, 387 contributions, 88 donors, 5.8% of $5,632,299, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string INTEL.

The 5.8% share, the 88-donor count, and the $848 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.

The presidential character of 2008 is a calendar classification. It is not evidence that Intel donors behaved differently than in a neighboring even year.

Questions

What did FEC.gov record for Intel in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $328,122 in itemized individual contributions for the Intel grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 387 contributions and 88 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,632,299 all-cycle figure. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

What is left after the 2008 Intel cell?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,632,299. The 2008 cell of $328,122 is about 5.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.2% ($5,304,177) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Intel hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $328,122 an official Intel organization gift?

No. $328,122 is itemized individual contributions whose employer or occupation field grouped to Intel (INTEL) in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 387 contributions came from 88 donors. Do not invent those names from the grouping label.

Where are other FEC two-dimension pages?

Open Intel 2008 for the cycle overlay, Intel 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. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.