White House Power Consolidation Continues with 2010 Census Takeover; Will Press Care?
Census data are used to distribute Congressional seats to states, to make decisions about what community services to provide, and to distribute $300 billion in federal funds to local, state and tribal governments each year. Census.gov
Origin of Gerrymandering
How States Create Congressional Districts Based on Census Data
See also: Old American Century Org
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Now, here's an example of chutzpah: The Republicans didn't get their act together enough to challenge Obama for not being constitutionally qualified to be President as an Article 2 "natural born citizen" so Obama's White House steals the census from the Commerce Department against the specific instructions of the constitution itself -- "actual enumeration" under Article 1.
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