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Originally Posted by randolph
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LMAO
It's an
expression. And the pig I was referring to is the ISSUE of moving the Census to the Whitehouse.
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BTW, nice dodge. I almost forgot you still haven't answered my statement/question:
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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx
This is bigger than gerrymandering. This would have the power of the executive office (i.e. a full branch out of the US's 3 branches) behind it, and a majority of congress. Let's say this happened 3-4 years ago, when the Republicans had the Whitehouse and Congress. Would you be ok with the Whitehouse having control of voting districts under those circumstances?
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Let's go a step further...
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Originally Posted by FoxNews
the White House chief of staff can't be expected to handle the census in a neutral manner. Emanuel ran the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the 2006 election, and he was instrumental in getting Democrats elected into the majority.
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This Emanuel guy is the Carl Rove of the democratic party. Would you be ok with Carl Rove overseeing the Census?