President political money — 2008 cycle

President as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — President and 2008 — sum to $1,458,303. 1,210 itemized contributions and 347 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 President hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. President on an FEC employer or occupation line is a job title, not a roster of sitting U.S. presidents and not a candidate committee. Three hundred forty-seven donors in 2008 matched that word. Corporate presidents, association presidents, and others who typed the title share the cell. CEO, EXECUTIVE, VICE PRESIDENT, COMPANY PRESIDENT, and named-firm employer strings are other keys. This page is the one-word President title.

6.8% of the President roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $21,289,165 ($21.3 million). The 2008 slice of $1,458,303 is about 6.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.2% ($19,830,862). Treating 2008 as the President FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $21,289,165 as the denominator for the 6.8% 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 $21,289,165.

1,210 contributions from 347 donors

Dividing $1,458,303 by 1,210 contributions yields about $1,205 per itemized gift. Dividing by 347 donors yields about $4,203 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

347 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 President 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. President 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 President to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $1,458,303.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $1,458,303 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 1,210 contributions, the 347 unique donors, and the 6.8% share of $21,289,165.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $1,458,303. 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 White House account, not a campaign treasury, and not an executive NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 347 donors, and 1,210 contributions. EXECUTIVE is a neighboring occupation key. Do not fold those dollars into President. Named companies typed as employer sit on firm pages. This join reports the stored word PRESIDENT crossed with 2008 only. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing President and 2008 together

Start with $1,458,303, then President 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: President, 2008, $1,458,303, 1,210 contributions, 347 donors, 6.8% of $21,289,165, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string PRESIDENT.

The 6.8% share, the 347-donor count, and the $1,205 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 President donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,458,303 in itemized individual contributions for the President grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,210 contributions and 347 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $21,289,165 all-cycle figure.

What share of President FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $21,289,165. The 2008 cell of $1,458,303 is about 6.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.2% ($19,830,862) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the President 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 President donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string President. 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 $1,458,303 from 347 donors.

Where is the overlay for the President 2008 join?

Open President 2008 for the cycle overlay, President 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.