Census issues are about preventing the impoverished and people of color from voting. It's all about

[ej510]

reducing the number of voters. This is why Obama took the census duties from Judd Gregg. Michael Steele's party. :puke:

[firedupdem]

1. Exactly! I was just explaining that to my son. That's why tweety

said earlier Democrats like to do Loosy goosy things with the census that counts more democrats.

[ej510]

4. Republican cannot get elected in the future unless they change their ways. This is basically caging

voters well ahead of election season. Disqualify as many voters as possible.

[MadMaddie]

8. Funny tweety didn't have much to say when the Repugs

gerrymandered Tx and other southern states.

[eleny]

2. A good reason for *not nominating him for anything

[K Gardner]

3. Bingo. And I think the whole Judd thing was a set-up from the beginning. n/t

[ej510]

5. Knowing that repukes do shit like this why so cuban repukes sit back

and allow this shit to occur with getting upset.

[Bobbie Jo]

10. Yep....that's why Dudd ASKED for the job

and dropped it when he (they) realized he wouldn't be in control of the census.

[Captain Hilts]

6. And military people. nt

[ej510]

7. I still cannot grasp why the majority of the military are registered repukes.

[Captain Hilts]

13. Officers. A lot more dems among enlisted. nt

[Seen the light]

9. Then why did he even nominate him in the first place?

Makes no sense.

[ej510]

11. I have no idea.

[ShadowLiberal]

12. Err.. I thought this was about reducing the power of poor/minority voters

Seriously, how can you lose the right to vote just because the census somehow forgets to count you? I mean the courts have ruled that homeless people can register things like a park bench as their address for where they vote, they'll show up to vote, but they might be hard to find to do a census.

[ej510]

14. It's a way to claim one is not a citizen. Only citizens can vote.

[4lbs]

15. It appears that what Gregg wanted to do with the census was help the GOP

redistrict in such a way that as many districts as possible would have a majority of GOP registered voters.

Then they could win back some House seats in the 2010 midterms.