Article said:
The decision to move the census into the White House was announced just days after Obama named New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, a Republican, to be his commerce secretary. Gregg has long opposed “sampling” by the census and has voted against funding increases for the bureau.
Sabato said moving the census “in-house” will likely set up a situation where neither the Commerce Department nor the White House will know exactly what is going on in the Census Bureau. He said the process is “too critical to politics for both parties not to pay close attention.”
“I’ve always remembered what Joseph Stalin said: ‘Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.’ The same principle applies to the census. Since one or the other party will always be in power at the time of the census, it is vital that the out-of-power party at least be able to observe the process to make sure it isn’t being stacked in favor of the party in power. This will be difficult for the GOP since I suspect Democrats will control both houses of Congress for the entire Obama first term,” Sabato said.
new_rayz I have no idea where you’re getting this sampling spew from but the article posted only said the commerce secretary was OPPOSED to sampling. It did NOT say that sampling would be used, nor did it directly imply that.
If doing a house by house headcount can’t create an accurate or at least mostly-accurate count how the hell do you think randomizing and guessing will help? You can randomly sample and educatedly guess any result you want if you know how, and I imagine one of the Democrat’s chief strategist knows a thing or two about getting his party’s way through sketchy at best tactics.
But hey, if they use voter registration information to determine where people live I imagine pretty much every homeless and deadbeat in the country will now be on the books…