VP occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Where VP meets 2008

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation VP and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $1,985,365 ($2.0 million), 2,238 contributions, and 1,149 donors. 6.6% of VP occupation dollars ($29,934,385) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. VP is an abbreviated title as entered. VICE PRESIDENT and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT are separate occupation keys. The string is not the constitutional office. LobbyVault does not expand VP into those longer titles for the 2008 cell.

A VP bucket, not a license file

On the occupation side, $29,934,385 is the VP total across cycles. Sibling labels (VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, and EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT) stay on other pages. VP is not a count of U.S. vice presidents, a corporate officer census, or a merge with VICE PRESIDENT spelled out.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $29,934,385. The VP donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $1,985,365 is a slice of. Dividing $1,985,365 by 2,238 receipts yields about $887 per line; dividing by 1,149 donors yields about $1,728 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

2,238 VP receipts in presidential-year 2008

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only VP. $1,985,365 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

2,238 contributions from 1,149 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 1.9 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $887; mean per donor about $1,728. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $1,985,365. Three numbers define the VP × 2008 cell: dollars $1,985,365, contribution rows 2,238, unique donors 1,149. Share of occupation dollars is 6.6% of $29,934,385.

FEC receipts are not federal awards

Matching VP with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say VP donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a count of U.S. vice presidents, a corporate officer census, or a merge with VICE PRESIDENT spelled out.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. VP is an abbreviated title as entered. VICE PRESIDENT and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT are separate occupation keys. The string is not the constitutional office. LobbyVault does not expand VP into those longer titles for the 2008 cell. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $1,985,365 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the VP donations hub is $29,934,385; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked VP and 2008 tables

VP donations holds the $29,934,385 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only VP. All occupations places VP beside other titles without merging sibling strings (VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, and EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $1,985,365 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle VP dollars ($29,934,385). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $1,985,365, 2,238 contributions, 1,149 donors, 6.6% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Volume facts for VP in 2008

Keep 2,238 contributions and 1,149 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether VP in 2008 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. About 1.9 receipts per donor and about $1,728 per donor are ratios, not typical gifts.

The all-cycle occupation total $29,934,385 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did VP-labeled donors give in 2008?

The VP grouping’s 2008 cell is $1,985,365 in itemized individual contributions, from 2,238 contributions and 1,149 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $29,934,385 all-cycle occupation total.

Does VP include Senior Vice President?

No. VP is the abbreviation as typed. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT is a different occupation page. The 2008 cycle filter on VP is $1,985,365, 2,238 contributions, and 1,149 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $29,934,385. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of VP FEC money fell in 2008?

About 6.6%. $1,985,365 divided by $29,934,385 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 93.4% ($27,949,020) on the occupation hub. See the VP occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does VP 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $1,985,365 is itemized receipts tagged VP in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.