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Republicans will lose many seats in Congress due to right-wing paranoia about the census
Examiner ^ | Mar 30, 2010 | Hans Bader

Posted on 03/30/2010 6:40:48 PM PDT by decimon

Republicans will lose many seats in Congress due to right-wing paranoia about the census and refusal to fill out census forms, gloats the liberal web site Daily Kos.

The number of Congressional districts a state gets is based on how many of its citizens return completed census forms. Because voters in conservative states are completing and returning census forms at lower rates than voters in liberal states, conservative states will lose many seats in the House of Representatives that they would otherwise gain due to increases in their population.

Republican-leaning "Red States" will also lose out on billions of dollars in federal funds, which are apportioned based largely on population.

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1 posted on 03/30/2010 6:40:48 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

I will allow them to count me. That’s it.That is all they have a right to do under the Constitution.


2 posted on 03/30/2010 6:43:03 PM PDT by rogertarp
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To: decimon

Good Gawd, make it end!


3 posted on 03/30/2010 6:43:15 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: decimon

Yes.

So, FReepers, please return your census form.

We honor the Constitution around here. The census is Constitutionally mandated. Be a good American and get counted.

Seriously.

(Unless you’re in a blue state.)


4 posted on 03/30/2010 6:43:17 PM PDT by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense are more important than issues.)
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To: decimon

Conservatives are returning the census. They’re just providing only the required information.

Also, many are probably waiting until April 1, since the form actually asks questions as to the state of the household as of April 1, and conservatives tend to be a little more literal-minded about things like that.


5 posted on 03/30/2010 6:43:21 PM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: decimon

I doubt it. Conservatives are more responsible and likely to fill out the basic information than many liberal scum. They may not fill out all fields but they will fill out the basic info.


6 posted on 03/30/2010 6:43:52 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Let's Roll

Please people don’t give them an excuse to undercount us.


7 posted on 03/30/2010 6:44:08 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying Planned Parenthood to murder babies! Cut off their federal funding!)
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To: decimon
The number of Congressional districts a state gets is based on how many of its citizens return completed census forms.

Or how many completed forms each individual returns?

8 posted on 03/30/2010 6:44:42 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: decimon

The liberals will fill out multiple census forms.


9 posted on 03/30/2010 6:45:36 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: decimon
I returned mine. Two adults, three children in my house.

That's it. They can go scratch their ass if they expect me to answer questions about my race or income or home ownership or anything else.

I will not willing play Social Engineering Stratego with them.

10 posted on 03/30/2010 6:45:46 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: decimon

Not so. It was sent in with the accurate count.


11 posted on 03/30/2010 6:46:29 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (Gun, Bible, Gadsden Flag...the definition of a hater and far right-wing extremist)
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To: decimon

When liberals are “concerned” about us, I know that we must be doing the right thing.


12 posted on 03/30/2010 6:47:04 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Think globally, act locally--beat up your neighborhood hippie communist.)
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To: decimon
After the counting is over, there will be 5 million people in Texas, and 20 million people in Massachusetts.

It won't be a function of who sent in the forms -- it's a function of who does the counting.

13 posted on 03/30/2010 6:47:07 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I do not want the Union to be maintained. I want the US to break up. I support secession.)
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To: EGPWS
Or how many completed forms each individual returns?

That 'completed' bothers me. Is an incompletely filled form not counted for some purposes?

14 posted on 03/30/2010 6:48:30 PM PDT by decimon
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I am sick of seeing the commercials which say 'otherwise your community won't get it's fair share.

The census was about representation in Congress (fair say), not about divvying up money the Federal Government never should have taken from the people in the first place.

What I want to know is why half of the page is taken up with racist questions, including a half dozen varieties of spanish speaker, but never is there a question asking how many there are American Citizens.

This implies the intent of the Federal Government to apportion representation and funding to districts on the basis of occupancy whether by citizen or illegal alien, regardless of the number of citizens present.

I gotta problem wit' dat.

15 posted on 03/30/2010 6:48:42 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: dead
They can go scratch their ass if they expect me to answer questions about my race...

You might want to read the full article.

16 posted on 03/30/2010 6:50:07 PM PDT by decimon
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To: kevkrom

You are absolutely correct. Ours is filled out, and will be mailed April 1 or shortly after.

Besides, I don’t want to give them a lot of extra time to bother us, LOL.


17 posted on 03/30/2010 6:51:28 PM PDT by webschooner (Lincoln Freed the Slaves ... Obama Enslaves the Free)
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To: decimon

I sent mine in, but it doesn’t matter because Obozo and his minions are running it. They probably hit the circular file as soon as they come in.

They aim to find every way possible to cheat. Nobody will stop them.


18 posted on 03/30/2010 6:51:49 PM PDT by dforest
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To: decimon
How about the tens of millions of democrat voters who do not even know how to read and write? Let the daily kos morons gloat as much as they want. The census bureau has already have a very good estimate of the population of each state and I do not think that they do the count solely based on the returned filled census form.

I filled mine and mailed back a week ago and I think the vast majority of conservatives did the same.

19 posted on 03/30/2010 6:52:41 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops)
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To: decimon

Oh OK, there ya go — now lunatic Kos Kids are a legitimate newz source to the Examiner.

Gimmee a freaking break ...


20 posted on 03/30/2010 6:53:15 PM PDT by webschooner (Lincoln Freed the Slaves ... Obama Enslaves the Free)
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