White House Softens Language on 2010 Census Plan

Fox News ^ | 3/11/09 | staff

[Secret Agent Man]

I am not answering any more questions than I did on the 2000 census. Screw them.

[KarlInOhio]

Before the 2000 census the XXX-42 administration got a smackdown from the court (in a narrowly defined case) that they couldn't use statistical sampling to apportion the House seats among the states . Clinton and gang quickly pointed out that they hadn't been restricted from using sampling to layout House districts. Even if you have the Dems tied down 99%, that 1% will still cause trouble.

[lilycicero]

Just ping me to your wit when you get another new phrase....I like mean humor.

[GAB-1955]

That’s the American Community Survey; they do that so they don’t have to do the long form in the Census.

[chris_bdba]

Nope Obama how about we do it the way it’s been done since we started them and you keep your nose and your party politics out of it?

[Recovering_Democrat]

“Soften their language”?

In other words, they’re still politicizing it....they’re just doing it with a different tone.

We’re hosed folks.

[DustyMoment]

LOL!!!

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Please forgive my ignorance, but I don’t completely understand the political power significance of a census. Could someone please briefly explain?

The number of Representatives each state gets in the House is determined by population. The number of Senators is fixed at two per state.

Regards,
GtG

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

P.S. If the census comes every ten years, what it Bush or Clinton in office for the last one?

Clinton, the 2000 census started in January 2000. the election was in November with Bush entering office some weeks after the normal 10 Jan 2001 due to albore's antics.

Regards,
GtG

[3boysdad]

Thanks for reading through my typo. Just what I suspected... we’re getting screwed twice in a row. That doesn’t surprise me anymore.

I guess my responce to the census will be... “Ten. Me, myself, I, an AR-15, AR-10, M1 Garand, 1911 .45, .300 mag, 7mm mag, 30-30 Winchester, Mossberg 500 tactical, several sporting shotguns, and many various small CWP pistols. Oh, and do you count munitions stores too? I guess that makes... like, tweleve then. Glad to help. Have a nice day.”

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Thanks for reading through my typo. Just what I suspected... we’re getting screwed twice in a row. That doesn’t surprise me anymore.

Yeah, I worked the 2000 census for several months. My recollection of that experience is that the dims were calling for "statistical adjustments" because minorities were under reported. No evidence of that ever surfaced but the libtards' mantra was that the mere presence of "official government employees" struck such paralyzing fear into the hearts of minorities that they would hide and not volunteer information.

I would find some truth in that argument if we were talking about illegal squatters but they should not be counted in any event. I don't recall specific policy as to what was done with illegals but I'll go out on a limb here and assume they were counted as citizens in the 2000 enumeration.

You can bet the farm that the illegals will be added in this time around for sure.

Regards,
GtG