Why the Census Is Important

February 23, 2009 RSS Feed Print
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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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Jeaccusia of AL 4:46AM April 08, 2010

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?

Oldest & Wisest of VA 8:51AM February 24, 2009

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".

Muser of NM 5:45PM February 23, 2009

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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