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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 12:03 AM Dec 2017

GOP's/Trump's Next Step Sabotage The Next Census Undercount Minorities/Immigrants.

Nothing is too brazen for these people. That fact that they want a citizenship question on the census is a non starter. We simply must win in 2018. They want to gerrymander the census to have total power for a generation.

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GOP's/Trump's Next Step Sabotage The Next Census Undercount Minorities/Immigrants. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 OP
Conservatives in canada were about cancelling the long form census. applegrove Dec 2017 #1
They strangle funding Ohiogal Dec 2017 #2
So they can fudge the results. UCmeNdc Dec 2017 #3
I've never understood how this helps them. n/t rainin Dec 2017 #4
Undercount Minorities&Dem Areas. Then Over Count Red Areas Keep Your Reps. TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 #5

applegrove

(118,824 posts)
1. Conservatives in canada were about cancelling the long form census.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 12:06 AM
Dec 2017

Liberals got into power and brought it back. Conservatives never did adequately explain why they wanted worse information on the people of the country.

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