MD donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

MD × 2008

MD plus cycle 2008 equals $798,655. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2008. Physician, doctor, M.D., and medical doctor are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an AMA physician census, a state medical-board roster, or a hospital medical-staff file. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Md donations at /occupations/md/ and the 2008 election cycle at /election-cycles/2008/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $798,655 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for MD in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $798,655. Specialty, practice setting, and whether MD meant medical doctor is unpublished for MD in 2008. The occupation page and the 2008 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

MD as two letters, not physician

$14.3 million ($14,302,179) belongs to the exact string MD across harvested cycles. It is not an AMA physician census, a state medical-board roster, or a hospital medical-staff file. People who wrote nearby wording — physician, doctor, M.D., and medical doctor — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2008 slice is 5.6% of that title bucket. Share of MD is not share of all 2008 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $798,655. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $14,302,179. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Md donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $798,655.

1,286 MD receipts in a presidential year

611 donors and 1,286 receipts — about 2.1 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $621; mean per donor about $1,307. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 611 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 1,286 is a line count, not 611 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. Specialty, practice setting, and whether MD meant medical doctor is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by MD. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $798,655.

Abbreviation versus physician and PAC tables

Cite $798,655 as MD in 2008. Cite $14,302,179 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add physician-association and hospital PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $798,655 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 5.6%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode MD into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite MD money in 2008

A clean footnote names occupation MD, election cycle 2008, $798,655 in itemized individual contributions, 1,286 receipts, and 611 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $621 per line and $1,307 per donor in the cell. If the live Md donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 1,286 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Md donations rolls every cycle into one MD running total. The 2008 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2008 total. Only the MD × 2008 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 1,286 receipts and $798,655. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did md filers donate in 2008?

Filers who listed MD itemized $798,655 in FEC individual contributions in 2008, from 1,286 receipts and 611 donors. That is 5.6% of $14,302,179 under MD. Physician, doctor, M.D., and medical doctor are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include physician-association PACs?

No. $798,655 is individual contributions tagged MD in 2008. Physician-association and hospital PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $798,655 would blend FEC tables. See Md donations or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee names. MD in 2008 is $798,655 on 1,286 receipts from 611 donors.

Are md labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses MD. Physician, doctor, M.D., and medical doctor are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an AMA physician census, a state medical-board roster, or a hospital medical-staff file. Cite $798,655 for this title in 2008 on 1,286 receipts from 611 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Md donations ($14.3 million for the string) and the 2008 election cycle. The overlap is $798,655 from 1,286 receipts and 611 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for MD in 2008.