Citizenship Question on Census More Popular Than The Media Would Lead You To Believe

Putting the citizenship question on the census is a Republican plot to steal the next election. It’s designed to suppress funding for low-income communities. It’s just racist. Take your pick of which of these typical headlines you like. To read most of the coverage in major newspapers or on the usual cable news shows, adding the citizenship question is an evil concept that all morally upright citizens should reject. But if that’s the case, why are so many people in favor of it? As it turns out, a majority of voters favor it and not even a third oppose it. (Washington Examiner)

Americans by a wide margin agree with President Trump that the upcoming 2020 census should ask a citizenship question.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll found that 53% feel it should ask the question versus 32% who don’t.
The survey asked: “Do you think the federal government should or should not ask people whether they are American citizens as part of the 2020 census?”
The Supreme Court has rejected including the question in a form the administration proposed but left the door open to another version. And Trump is considering changing the version.

The Yes/No/Not Sure count breaks down at 53/32/14. That’s really not even close, and even if all of the “unsure” voters swung to a negative answer they’d still be in the minority.

The Supreme Court rejected the question in its current form and also didn’t care for the reason it was being asked, but they did leave open the possibility of accepting it if it was restructured a bit and different reasoning was provided. As I noted previously, it seems a bit late for that now unless we really want to drive up the cost of printing and distributing the census forms, but the President may still take another run at it.

But that’s not the big issue here, at least as I’m reading the situation. Democrats are almost universal in very publicly opposing the addition of the citizenship question to the census and slamming the President and anyone who agrees with him over it. And yet again, they’re coming up on the wrong side of the issue when it comes to the feelings of the public. Every one of them who goes on record in this fashion is basically just feeding ammunition to the GOP for next year’s elections.

How many of these issues do they need to hang around their own necks before they go underwater? The public is solidly opposed to infanticide and late-term abortion. A clear majority are still opposed to gun bans. While voters do show significant support for some tenuous form of public health plans, they broadly oppose getting rid of private health insurance. Free health care for illegal immigrants is not at all popular.

The Democrats are building their 2020 platform out of a collection of planks that the public is rejecting. Pretty much the only thing they can agree on among themselves is that the Orange Man is Bad and needs to be removed. But in terms of policies, they appear to be driving themselves into a ditch. I find it remarkable that they’re doing as well as they are in recent polling because they’re pushing a lot of ideas that voters simply do not support.

Republican plot to steal the next election. It’s designed to suppress funding for low-income communities. It’s just racist.

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This is all media code for opposites of what they say. Maybe not diametrically, but let me decode what they really mean;

Plot to steal the next election really means, plot to stop the next election from being stolen.
No real reason to go in depth here. Driver’s licenses for illegals, ballot harvesting, etc.
We can’t have only citizens voting here. That would be a travesty. /s

Suppress funding to low income communities is based on the notion that people will lie or not complete a census form rather than have to answer this question. Without debating how much that would be true, what is assumed here is that tax payers everywhere need to pay for ever growing enclaves and ‘sanctuaries’ of illegals. So to say that this is an effort to suppress funding is another way of saying that they want to protect fraudulent use of tax payers money from being exposed.
We can’t have transparency, now can we? /s

Racism. This implies that the reason people care about illegal immigration is skin color or ethnicity. To imply it is to be racist in itself. Nobody even knows where illegals are originating from because it’s always changing, and that sort of information is not reported for the most part. A shift seems to have occured from Mexico, to other latin American countries, now to Asian and African sources, but we could be getting a half a million immigrants from northern europe not not really know it. Of course I’m being facitious on that last part. The powers behind illegal immigration would do everything they could to stop millions of illegals coming from northern europe, particularly if they appeared to have right-leaning social and political values. Why, because racism doesn’t really have anything to do with what drives this. Politics does. Everyone knows it, on both sides

Section II of Amendment XIV inherently requires the census to have a citizenship question, since it requires:
1. every person be counted, and
2. Congressional apportionment by Section I citizens resident in the several states.

Amendment XIV, Section 2, “their respective numbers” refers back to countable objects, which can only be citizens:

“Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside...

“Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers”
“,counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.”

The Amendment replaced the original residents (with slave numbers discounted 40%) basis for Congressional apportionment described below:

“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union,
according to their respective Numbers,
which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons,
including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed,
three fifths of all other Persons.

Amendment XIV, Sections 1 & 2 are clear in and of themselves as to Congressional apportionment by citizens.

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