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The graphic was splashy by the Census Bureau’s standards and it showed an unmistakable moment in America’s future: the year 2044, when white Americans were projected to fall below half the population and lose their majority status. The presentation of the data disturbed Kenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau director, who saw it while looking through a government report. The graphic made demographic change look like a zero-sum game that white Americans were losing, he thought, and could provoke a political backlash. So after the report’s release three years ago, he organized a meeting with Katherine Wallman, at the time...

It would be the perfect media match, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton versus First Lady Laura Bush for president in 2008. Not possible, you say? Mrs. Clinton, after all, is almost certain to be running for her party's nomination. After her recent hilarious and deft comic performance at the recent White House correspondents' dinner in the nation's capital, Mrs. Bush, already far more popular than her husband, is now clearly the most well-liked woman in America.