rssRep. Patrick McHenry: Please, Conservatives, Fill Out Your Census Forms!
Thursday, April 01, 2010 at 11:41 am
- 5 Comments
The conservative congressman from North Carolina, a constant critic of the census — one of the people who sounded the alarm about “politicization” when the White House mulled over the idea of letting Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have a say over it — takes to RedState to battle census conspiracy theorists.
No one has advocated a direct boycott of the census but there have been calls to only partially fill out census forms – even though that would be a direct violation of federal law. Those calls are the problem. They feed a climate of mistrust in the census and need to be refuted. Unless conservatives understand how important it is to participate in the census, that climate will result in fewer conservatives being counted and hand Nancy Pelosi more congressional seats.
I and other conservatives have worked hard to fight off the Obama Administration’s harmful census plans. We fought off their attempt to run the census directly. We fought off ACORN’s attempt to participate and we fought off ill-conceived statistical sampling schemes that would artificially inflate the number of Democrat voters. We have been largely successful in keeping this count apolitical and it would be a tragedy if some of our ill-informed friends handed Democrats a victory at the last minute.
Some commentators have mocked reports of low census participation in conservative areas, but op-eds like this reveal that it is, potentially, a problem.
Follow David Weigel on Twitter
5 Comments
Comment posted April 1, 2010 @ 4:57 pm
“we fought off ill-conceived statistical sampling schemes that would artificially inflate the number of Democrat voters”
Quick translation: we've made sure that accurate urban counts are not possible, while ensuring the incarcerated count toward the overwhelmingly rural, and coincidentally conservative, areas where they are warehoused.
Comment posted April 2, 2010 @ 11:25 am
Interesting way to look at it. Perhaps incarcerated individuals should be counted at their last permanent address.
Pingback posted April 5, 2010 @ 11:57 am
[...] "Hemos luchado contra los regímenes estadísticos mal concebida de muestreo que se inflaba artificialmente el número de votantes demócratas" Traducción rápida: nos hemos asegurado de que los recuentos exactos urbanas no son posibles, garantizando al mismo tiempo el número de presos hacia la gran mayoría rural, y casualmente conservador, áreas donde se encuentran almacenadas. URL del artículo original http://washingtonindependent.com/81183/rep-patrick-mchenry-please-conservatives-fill-out-your-census... [...]
Pingback posted April 6, 2010 @ 11:46 am
[...] [. . . ] "Nous nous sommes battus contre les régimes mal conçue échantillonnage statistique qui gonfle artificiellement le nombre des électeurs démocrates" rapide traduction: nous avons veillé à ce que des comptages précis urbaines ne sont pas possibles, tout en assurant le nombre de prisonniers à la grande majorité les zones rurales, et en passant conservatrice où ils sont entreposés. Http: / URL washingtonindependent / de l'article original. com/81183/rep-patrick-mchenry-please-conservatives-fill-out-your-census. . . [. . . ] URL article original: http://washingtonindependent.com/81183/rep-patrick-mchenry-please-conservatives-fill-out-your-census... [...]
Pingback posted April 6, 2010 @ 6:28 pm
[...] «Nous avons combattu hors mal conçu des plans d'échantillonnage statistique qui permettrait de gonfler artificiellement le nombre d'électeurs démocrates" Traduction rapide: Que nous avons fait en sorte urbaine, chiffres précis ne sont pas possibles, tandis que le nombre de détenus vers Assurer la très grande majorité rurale, conservatrice et comme par hasard, Lorsque ce sont des zones d'entrepôt. URL article original: http://washingtonindependent.com/81183/rep-patrick-mchenry-please-conservatives-fill-out-your-census... [...]
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
