Medical Doctor political money — 2008 cycle

Medical Doctor as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation MEDICAL DOCTOR and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $772,385, 824 contributions, and 476 donors. MEDICAL DOCTOR is one clinical spelling. People who typed Physician or MD are other rows. FEC.gov does not verify board certification. The occupation hub is $6,923,128 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 11.2% ($772,385 of $6,923,128). The remainder, $6,150,743, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. Hundreds of donors and more than eight hundred lines in a presidential cycle is a mid-scale clinical cell, not a handful of self-funders. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $772,385.

A smaller all-cycle total than Physician-coded rows

$6,923,128 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. Physician, MD, and Doctor are other occupation keys if stored as different strings. Adding those keys to $6,923,128 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Medical Doctor donations for the $6,923,128 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures. 2008’s 11.2% share is large relative to this spelling’s modest all-cycle total, not proof that doctors gave more that year than other titles.

476 donors and a sub-thousand mean gift

Dividing $772,385 by 824 contributions yields about $937 per gift. Dividing by 476 donors yields about $1,623 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 1.7 (824 ÷ 476). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

476 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 476 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell.

What 11.2% of Medical Doctor dollars is not

A 11.2% share of Medical Doctor-coded dollars from 2008 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $772,385 as itemized individual receipts tagged MEDICAL DOCTOR in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Medical Doctor × 2008

A complete claim names Medical Doctor and 2008, then $772,385, 824 contributions, 476 donors, and 11.2% of $6,923,128, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 476 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Medical Doctor and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $937 and mean per donor $1,623 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Physician as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $6,150,743 outside 2008. Most of the $6,923,128 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Physician, MD, and Doctor are other occupation keys if stored as different strings. Those titles are not parents of MEDICAL DOCTOR on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 1.7. That ratio is 824 divided by 476, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Medical Doctor-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $772,385 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Medical Doctor in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 824 contributions and 476 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $6,923,128, so 2008 is 11.2% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every medical doctor who donated in 2008?

No. The 476 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to MEDICAL DOCTOR in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $772,385 on 824 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Medical Doctor occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

11.2%: $772,385 of $6,923,128. The remaining $6,150,743 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $772,385 divided by $6,923,128, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Medical Doctor and 2008 tables?

Medical Doctor donations carries the $6,923,128 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Medical Doctor beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Medical Doctor × 2008 intersection only.