Acorn invited to help with Census!

NY Post - April 5, 2009
COUNT HIM OUT

The Constitution of the United States of America mandates that "the whole number of persons" in the nation be counted every 10 years by means of a national census. It doesn't say they should be "sampled" or "estimated."
Yet that is precisely what seems likely to happen, thanks to President Obama's selection of Robert Groves, a University of Michigan professor and fierce advocate of "statistical sampling," as the next director of the US Census.
Sampling -- statistical adjustments based on estimates to make up for an alleged undercount in urban areas -- has long been high on the Democratic agenda. Groves himself, as deputy director of the Census in 1990, urged use of the practice, but was overruled by then-Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, who rightly called it "political tampering."
The once-every-decade Census is one of the most critical of all government activities. The numbers drive not only the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives, but also just about every type of population-based domestic federal spending.
And since those in the allegedly undercounted areas are mostly minorities who tend to vote heavily Democratic, it's obvious why that party has pushed so strongly to include sampling.
And why the Dems invited the radicals at ACORN -- of voter-registration-fraud infamy -- to help conduct the Census. (continues...)