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...letting things manifest themselves.'...Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the product or movie is not obvious...encounters with the sticker provoke thought and possible frustration." Almost as an afterthought, the site notes that "[b]ecause Giant has a Posse has no actual meaning, the various reactions and interpretations of those who view it reflect their personality and the nature of their sensibilities." The result is a foreshadowing of almost any result the Giant campaign will have--the Rorschach properties of knowledge are not at all unique to the Posse...
...think counting citizens is political, but then again, people didn't think the actual mechanics of counting votes was political either. Au contraire...
...constitution calls for an "actual numeration" of American citizens. Simple, right? Not so fast. It's not the number of people or the number of votes, but how you count them. It's not the votes or the folks, it's the methodology...
...remedy this, the U.S. Census Bureau has proposed using statistical sampling to improve the accuracy of the final tally. That means they would do an actual physical count of as many people as they can find in a given census tract, and then employ a mathematical model to fill in the holes...
...Republicans are in favor of the moral equivalent of a hand count when it comes to the census because such fine-grained specificity actually means leaving out a lot of folks, most of whom are likely to be Democrats. And that's the same reason Jim Baker and Katherine Harris are in favor of chopping off the hand count in Florida. Less is more when it comes to Republicans. (By the way, Texas was ground zero for undercounting in the 1990 census. Governor Bush is on record as saying that he favors using actual count numbers rather than sampling...