Professor and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Professor as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Professor and 2008 — sum to $343,605. The cell holds 430 itemized contributions and 144 unique donors. 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 Professor hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Professor as a title can collect people who did not type a campus name. One hundred forty-four donors in 2008 produced 430 lines. Yale University, University of Chicago, and other campus employer pages are separate joins. Do not add those campus cells to this title total. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, TEACHER, and named universities are other keys. This page is the one-word Professor string.

7.2% of the Professor roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,764,599 ($4.8 million). The 2008 slice of $343,605 is about 7.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.8%. Treating 2008 as the Professor FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,764,599 as the denominator for the 7.2% 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 $4,764,599.

430 contributions from 144 donors

Dividing $343,605 by 430 contributions yields about $799 per itemized gift. Dividing by 144 donors yields about $2,386 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

144 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 Professor 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Professor 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 Professor to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $343,605 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 430 contributions, the 144 unique donors, and the 7.2% share of $4,764,599.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $343,605. 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 higher-education NAICS total and not a faculty union PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 144 donors, and 430 contributions. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, TEACHER, and named universities are other keys. This page is the one-word Professor string. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Professor and 2008 together

Start with $343,605, then Professor 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Professor, 2008, $343,605, 430 contributions, 144 donors, 7.2% of $4,764,599, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.2% share, the 144-donor count, and the $799 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 Professor donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $343,605 in itemized individual contributions for the Professor grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 430 contributions and 144 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,764,599 all-cycle figure.

What share of Professor FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,764,599. The 2008 cell of $343,605 is about 7.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.8% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Professor 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 professors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Professor. 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 $343,605 from 144 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Professor 2008 join?

Open Professor 2008 for the cycle overlay, Professor 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.