Why the Census Is Important
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
As a footnote to my column on the Census, here is Peter Baker's good piece on why the Census is important to politicians.
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What's Fair?
Gerrymandering is to redistrict to give your party an unfair advantage. Before the 2000 redistricting, Texas voters cast a strong majority of votes for Republican candidates to the U.S. House of Representatives but the actual Lone Star State Congressional districts--gerrymandered by over a century of one party Democrat rule--elected more Democrats than Republicans to Congress from Texas. Now under the lines drawn by Tom DeLay and the GOP, a majority of Republican votes in Texas results in a majority of Republican congressman from that state. Which was the fairer result?
What a pity
Republicans are not going to be allowed to run this show and gerry-mander like the good old days of Tom DeLay and his Texas redistricting. That's a good example of why voters chose CHANGE.
Actually counting the homeless might be another useful "change".
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