US Army and the 2008 FEC election cycle

US Army employer text × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — US Army and 2008 — sum to $325,064. The cell holds 497 itemized contributions and 232 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 US Army hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. US Army as employer text in 2008 collected 497 lines from 232 donors. Active-duty members, civilians, spouses, and veterans who still typed the service can share the string. Official Army accounts are not the payor. Punctuation variants such as U.S. Army are other keys if stored separately. U.S. ARMY, UNITED STATES ARMY, ARMY, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, and US NAVY or US AIR FORCE are other keys.

7.9% of the US Army roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,124,725 ($4.1 million). The 2008 slice of $325,064 is about 7.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.1%. Treating 2008 as the US Army FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,124,725 as the denominator for the 7.9% 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 $4,124,725.

497 contributions from 232 donors

Dividing $325,064 by 497 contributions yields about $654 per itemized gift. Dividing by 232 donors yields about $1,401 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.1. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

232 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 US Army 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

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

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $325,064 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 497 contributions, the 232 unique donors, and the 7.9% share of $4,124,725.

Service or agency text, not appropriations

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $325,064. 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 defense NAICS total, not Army appropriated funds, and not an Army PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 232 donors, and 497 contributions. U.S. ARMY, UNITED STATES ARMY, ARMY, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, and US NAVY or US AIR FORCE are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing US Army and 2008 together

Start with $325,064, then US Army 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: US Army, 2008, $325,064, 497 contributions, 232 donors, 7.9% of $4,124,725, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.9% share, the 232-donor count, and the $654 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 US Army donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $325,064 in itemized individual contributions for the US Army grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 497 contributions and 232 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,124,725 all-cycle figure.

What share of US Army FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,124,725. The 2008 cell of $325,064 is about 7.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.1% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the US Army hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Are these official US Army funds?

No. $325,064 is individual receipts whose employer text grouped to US Army. Appropriated funds and official accounts are not the payor. Punctuation variants and named agencies are other keys with their own totals. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the US Army hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the US Army 2008 join?

Open US Army 2008 for the cycle overlay, US Army 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.