Union Pacific Railroad political money — 2008 cycle

Union Pacific Railroad as stored employer text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Union Pacific Railroad and 2008 — sum to $713,957. 2,240 itemized contributions and 227 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 Union Pacific Railroad hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred twenty-seven donors and 2,240 lines in 2008 sit under the three-word Union Pacific Railroad employer string. That is a high receipts-per-person ratio: many Schedule A rows on a modest unique-donor count. Shorter UNION PACIFIC rows are a neighboring key if stored separately. UNION PACIFIC, UP RAILROAD, UNION PACIFIC CORP, and NORFOLK SOUTHERN or other railroad employer strings are other keys.

11.4% of the Union Pacific Railroad roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,248,507 ($6.25 million). The 2008 slice of $713,957 is about 11.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 88.6% ($5,534,550). Treating 2008 as the Union Pacific Railroad FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $6,248,507 as the denominator for the 11.4% 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 $6,248,507.

2,240 contributions from 227 donors

Dividing $713,957 by 2,240 contributions yields about $319 per itemized gift. Dividing by 227 donors yields about $3,145 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 9.9. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

227 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 Union Pacific Railroad 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Union Pacific Railroad 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 Union Pacific Railroad to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $713,957.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $713,957 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 2,240 contributions, the 227 unique donors, and the 11.4% share of $6,248,507.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $713,957. 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 Union Pacific PAC and not a rail-transportation 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, 227 donors, and 2,240 contributions. Payroll-style repeat gifts can raise the line count faster than the unique-donor count. The Commission does not certify current railroad employment. USAspending transportation awards are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Union Pacific Railroad and 2008 together

Start with $713,957, then Union Pacific Railroad 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Union Pacific Railroad, 2008, $713,957, 2,240 contributions, 227 donors, 11.4% of $6,248,507, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.

The 11.4% share, the 227-donor count, and the $319 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 Union Pacific Railroad donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $713,957 in itemized individual contributions for the Union Pacific Railroad grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 2,240 contributions and 227 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,248,507 all-cycle figure.

What share of Union Pacific Railroad FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,248,507. The 2008 cell of $713,957 is about 11.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 88.6% ($5,534,550) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Union Pacific Railroad hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $713,957 the Union Pacific Railroad PAC total for 2008?

No. $713,957 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Union Pacific Railroad in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 2,240 contributions came from 227 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Union Pacific Railroad 2008 join?

Open Union Pacific Railroad 2008 for the cycle overlay, Union Pacific Railroad 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.