it is wrong for the WH to try to even seem to politicize the Census... Yet that is what happened...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/count_on_the_constitution.html >>> As then-Census Director Louis Kincannon said, "Adjustment based on >>> sampling didn't produce improved figures." Sampling might produce a more >>> accurate number for large units but not for smaller units -- just as the >>> sampling error in public opinion polls is small for the total population >>> but much larger for small subgroups. At the block level, sampling would >>> result in imputing people who aren't actually there. The potential for political mischief, political overrepresentation and greater federal funding for favored groups is obvious, just as Congress' refusal to reapportion after the 1920 Census resulted in political overrepresentation of low-growth rural areas and under- representation of then-booming big cities. The better procedure is to trust the professionals at the Census Bureau. "I found the Census personnel to be among the most conscientious of any group I'd encountered in government service," Bruce Chapman, census director in the Reagan administration, recently wrote. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
