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Lets give everyone a case. weve got our bumper case here. we want to give everyone a free case. every iphone user is gonna get a free case. >> i thought he meant a case of beer. lame, man. i was like, yeah! go jobs. he said he was, quote, stunned and upset and embarassed earlier this week when consumer report said it couldnt give the iphone 4 its recommended stamp because of the antenna problem. but he claims other smart phones have similar problems and the return rate for the iphone is actually...

Necks and shiny touch screens. if it doesnt work, everybody throws a fit. its not that much worse than any other phone out there. is that a valid point? >> they did follow on their story saying we pushed the envelope here. we put the antenna out of the edge of the phone. yes, its prove on the be controversial. but they stuck st to their guns saying, were doing something no one else has done with wreal challenges. but the return rate is far healthier than the 3gs. so it was a mix. >> youre our te...

Of having the words tea party on the ballot in polling has meant ten points in reids favor. moving on, the census bureau is still accepting forms through the end of the month and guess who has to cut a psa to boost participation rates. none other and that former white house adviser karl rove. >> hi, im karl rove. one of my favorite founders is james madison, principal author of the constitution. he created an instrument of democracy by writing into the constitution a requirement for a census eve...

Camp. she quit her public belly aching when she was reminded of the apportionment thing and it could mean her house seat could disappear. mr. bachmann, south dakota has 62% return rate. alaska well below at 41. texas at 47%. how about dickeyville, wisconsin? 70% have already returned their forms. dickeyville you say, lets get nowhere going here. number in the household, just me. any others? no there werent. house, apartment, mobile home? its a mobile home but they charge me like its an apartment...

She quit her public belly aching when she was reminded of the apportionment thing and it could mean her house seat could disappear. the good news for ms. backmann, south dakota has 62% return rate. texas, 47%. how about dickeyville, wisconsin? 70% have already returned their forms. number in the household, just the me. any others? no there werent. house, apartment, mobile home? its a mobile home but they charge me like its an apartment. okay, owned by -- okay, thats me. phone number, that one in...

Camp. she quit her belly aching when she was reminded of the reapportioned thing. the national return rate average by eight points. south dakota is pacing all states with 62% return rate. alaska well below at 41%. texas came on strong late at 46% same percentage for new york. dick keyville, population 1,000. 77% of dickeyvilles residents returned their form. lets get new york going here. any others, no, there werent. house, apartment, mobile home. they charge me like its an apartment. okay. yeah...

Attempt to count or population. here are the facts. the census bureau has sent out 130 million forms to households across the nation. were told that so far fewer than half of those have come back. the effort costs more than $14 billion take a look at the states with the highest return rate so far. south dakota, north date. the lowest, texas, louisiana, mississippi, new mexico and alaska. even become a competition for some communities. the mayors in st. louis and kansas city challenging each othe...

The confusion re quires the exercise and 14 billion over ten years and supporting local offices and a peak staff of 1.4 million workers. census director robert groves formerly launched the effort two months ago helping to distribute the famous questionnaires boiled down only to ten questions this year in a remote he is mow village. the chairman of university of michigan survey center is to improve on the 60% return rate for the questionnaires in the last census, to that end his bureau is spendin...

Months ago helping to formulate the famous questionnaires. the driving mission for groves, chairman of the university of michigan survey research center and a self-admitted geek is to improve on the 67% return rate for the questionnaires in the last census. to that end, his bureau is spending $85 million on advanced letters like this one and postcard reminders because internal research says such ticklers drive up response rates by 6% to 12%. >> every one percentage point for us means that we sav...

Is improve on the 67% return rate from the questionnaire from the last census. his bureau is spending $85 million on advanced letters like this one and postcard reminders because internal research shows ticklers drive up response rates 6 to 12%. >> every one percentage points for us mean we save $85 million of salary cost of sending people out to follow up on the non-responses. if we get five percentage point gain out of the advanced letter we are in the $500 million range of savings. >> but som...