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Are the Republicans going to call for civic disobedience on the census?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 03:24:39 PM EST
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Are the Republicans going to call for civic disobedience on the census?

If they do, it will hurt Republicans the most. Since I doubt liberals will follow their paranoid banner, the red state foamers will effectively reduce their numbers and hopefully their representation. Say if all-of Utah decided not to be counted, they'd be down to 1 representative in the U.S. House.

by Magnifico on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 05:10:54 PM EST
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As Magnifico said, they'd be essentially committing suicide.  First of all, it's against the law to not fill out your decennial Census form (I know there's a $5,000 fine and probably more).  Second, electoral votes and congresscritters are derived from the Census.

Which is fine by me, of course, and I'm sure the folks in Michigan, New York and other "shrinking" (relative to others) states wouldn't mind getting more.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 05:31:43 PM EST
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