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Discussing the right's aversion to the Census, on Talking Points Memo...
...There's nothing the right, particularly the sectarian right, loves more than the federal constitution ... But I'm not sure there's any better example of what nonsense this is, or the way that the 'constitution' has just become a fetish ... than the paranoia and rage against the Census. If you're really devoted to the constitution, by all rights responding to the Census should make you something close to giddy...
Thus far, an estimated 71 percent of Americans have filled out the census, the panelists said, and census counters will begin going door-to-door next week, which, according to Greg J. Nickels, the former mayor of Seattle, might cause concern among some Americans...
...help spread this message. The IOP Community Action Committee has worked with CIVICS—a joint IOP and Phillips Brooks House Association program that teaches civics classes in elementary and middle schools in Boston and Cambridge—to prepare a lesson about the importance of the census for their students, many of whom come from serially under-counted populations, Bok said...
...exasperation, leaving the useful bits few and far between. List members are left to glean the most valuable pieces from a sea of nonsense. We should not have to wade through eight different phrasings of the same question to finally find out what to do with the census form. It’s as though we are stuck in a new era of gold mining, filtering out the majority of what we see just to gratify ourselves with a pertinent prospect here and there. The lists often seem to be abused for casual conversation, and this abuse is something that...