[coconutt2000]

The Obama administration has expanded the census data collection to new heights. The information collected is the same information marketing people need to form targeted campaigns...

Which means that this data will be used by the Obama administration in developing their 2012 reelection campaign. It probably won’t use specific information supplied by individuals to target those individuals, but the data can be used to customize the campaign for specific areas and demographics.

This is the kind of information that politicians always wanted to have, but never had the audacity to try and use the census to collect.

[quantim]

That’s exactly right on - and couple that with their snitch website awhile back with all the $$$$ confiscated from TARP and Porkulus.

[green pastures]

The Obama administration has expanded the census data collection to new heights.

Believe me there are very few occasions where I would defend the guy, but these long form census mailings have been out there for a long time. We got one in 2000*. Hugely intrusive, easily 20 pages of stuff including how many bathrooms.

*The bright side of things was they actually sent the long form to my deceased aunt, who had the same address, but lived in the downstairs of our old house. (We used to live in the upstairs of the old house.) We had built a new house next door to the old one, and were given the same house number. Did we have fun explaining that. But technically since they had sent it to her, we were able to return it as addressee deceased.

But this was 10 years ago, and Obama certainly didn't have any influence on the census then-- apart from community organization aspirations...