US Government political money — 2008 cycle

US Government employer text × 2008

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — US Government and 2008 — sum to $1,901,435. 664 itemized contributions and 262 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 US Government hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. US GOVERNMENT on a 2008 receipt is employer text as typed, not a roster of civil servants and not a Treasury outlay. Two hundred sixty-two donors are matching identities. Named cabinet departments typed instead of the generic phrase sit on other keys. US GOVT, U.S. GOVERNMENT, named agencies (US ARMY, IRS, NASA), and STATE OF strings are other keys if stored separately.

19.7% of the US Government roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $9,651,418 ($9.65 million). The 2008 slice of $1,901,435 is about 19.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 80.3% ($7,749,983). Treating 2008 as the US Government FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $9,651,418 as the denominator for the 19.7% 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 $9,651,418.

664 contributions from 262 donors

Dividing $1,901,435 by 664 contributions yields about $2,864 per itemized gift. Dividing by 262 donors yields about $7,257 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

262 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 Government 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. US Government 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 Government to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $1,901,435.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $1,901,435 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 664 contributions, the 262 unique donors, and the 19.7% share of $9,651,418.

Service or agency text, not appropriations

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $1,901,435. 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 appropriated funds, not an agency PAC, and not a USAspending award total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 262 donors, and 664 contributions. A generic US Government label can collect civilian and military workplaces that never named a bureau. The FEC does not recode those rows into agency pages. Cite this cell as the stored two-word phrase crossed with 2008, not as a whole-of-government payroll. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing US Government and 2008 together

Start with $1,901,435, then US Government 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: US Government, 2008, $1,901,435, 664 contributions, 262 donors, 19.7% of $9,651,418, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string US GOVERNMENT.

The 19.7% share, the 262-donor count, and the $2,864 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 Government donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,901,435 in itemized individual contributions for the US Government grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 664 contributions and 262 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $9,651,418 all-cycle figure.

What share of US Government FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $9,651,418. The 2008 cell of $1,901,435 is about 19.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 80.3% ($7,749,983) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the US Government hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Are these official US Government funds?

No. $1,901,435 is individual receipts whose employer text grouped to US Government. 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 Government hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the US Government 2008 join?

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