[pnh102]

It is always good news when a blue state loses one or more congressional seats! YAY!

[cripplecreek]

Bensen noted that if reapportionment occurred today, Michigan would keep its 15 seats. But if the trends nationwide continue, it's unlikely after the next census.

The reason for the spanish language 'come to michigan' campaign becomes apparent.

[paddles]

One less seat that could go to another muslim.

[goldstategop]

Bad news for the Democrats.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[lormand]

Central Texas is booming out of it's seems right now. Freepers only welcome here. :)

[Dacb]

'Texas (13%), Arizona (20%) and Nevada (25%)'

Wow.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Massachusetts may lose a seat too after 2010:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/12/29/mass_may_lose_seat_in_congress/

[kjo]

If two seats are gone, it's gonna be real fun watching the State legislature figuring out how to gerrymander districts for the Dems. Maybe John Conyers will finally decide to retire. Not likely. As Detroit and Wayne county continue to drop thousands of residents want to bet that the black caucus will demand more black representation?

That means the Republicans will have to give up a seat. Gonna be a great fight.

[oldbill]

Just declare Detroit a federal district and they can give it their own congressmen like they want to do with Washington DC.

[PGalt]

BTTT!

[Tall_Texan]

All the sane people are leaving so my guess is that the Dems will not lose any seats, just electoral votes.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Problem is, we hold a majority of the MI House seats. This may very well cost us a seat, not the rodents.

[HostileTerritory]

It's almost impossible to say "possibly two," that's not how it works. I see this on Massachusetts threads, too. Moving from a loss of one to a loss of two seats in any state smaller than New York is not a knife-edge thing, you'd need a Katrina effect on TOP of the normal economic hemorrhaging.

Slow growth (1%) means Massachusetts is losing a seat in 2012. (Good.) To lose two seats, we wouldn't have to decline a few thousand a year as we've been doing recently, we'd need to lose 12% or more of our population. That simply doesn't happen in America today. And Michigan is not going to lose an extra 600,000 people above forecasts, even with the economy in the toilet.

[The Sons of Liberty]

I'm expecting unprecedented shenanigans with the next census if the dims are in power. They will pull stunts like trying to count illegals, submitting fake census forms and figures, you name it to keep power in the blue states.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

That's a good thing.

[mewzilla]

MI, NY, MA....

Folks are fleeing the 'Rat utopias. Go figure.