If eastern Washington gains the seat, then there’s a better chance it’ll go repub.
More information from Benson at Polidata here:
http://www.polidata.org/news.htm#20091223
Kind of interesting...all of this is a projection, and pending the Census count...bringing in a variation of Stalin’s quote again:
“It’s not the votes that count, it’s who counts the votes” — Joseph Stalin
So for the Census we can say, “it’s not the actual population that matters, but who counts the population that matters.” I think based on the Polidata projections, etc., and people watching this closely, it may be hard to fudge data too much - but we’ll see, because a few fudges could result in at least a handful more RATS in the apportionments.
Now that said, getting ACORN out of the census biz, is a huge development, even if they’re scratching and clawing still out there. We NEED to keep fighting that battle, among the dozens of other battles (Saul Alinsky - ‘overwhelm the system’ - which rule is that?)