The Republican Establishment is trying to establish Ben Carson as their acceptable “anti-Establishment” candidate.
According to Rich Lowry [Email him] “Ben Carson is a superior outsider to Donald Trump.” Lowry praises Carson for catching “the populist wave roiling Republican politics” while not being “an obnoxious braggart who abuses anyone who crosses him and will say or do anything as long as he s getting attention.” [
Politico, September 2, 2015]
In addition to praising Carson, the GOP Establishment also pretends Carson is on the verge of knocking off Trump. Bill Kristol [Email him] proclaimed, “Republicans have had an exciting summer fling with Donald Trump, and are about to embark on a fall romance with Ben Carson.” [
As Pericles said, “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Nothing is more illustrative of the noble Athenian’s point than the American Census. The count is made, and you become part of a political calculus. In a parliamentary democracy, that is expected.
Since 1790, every ten years the United States has conducted a headcount. Unlike much of what the government does these days, there is actually a constitutional basis for the Census. Article I Section 2 empowers Congress to conduct a census in “such a manner as they shall by Law direct.” That law is codified as Title 13 of the US Code. Of course, the implementation of any law is subject to interpretation by federal judges, some of whom have legislated –
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When Julissa Gutierrez was appointed New York’s chief diversity officer last summer, she was tasked with registering more MWBEs and reaching the state’s ambitious 30% MWBE contract utilization goal – which New York nearly did, with the state announcing in December that 29.51% of its contracts had been awarded to firms owned by women or minorities in the 2019-2020 fiscal year. An expert on Latino issues and civic engagement, Gutierrez previously held key roles with the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund.
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This week, Minnesota s state demographer finally got the numbers she s spent years waiting for. I didn t expect to be as nervous as I eventually was as they were unveiling these numbers, says Susan Brower, who was among those glued to the Census Bureau s livestream about the first set of 2020 census results that determine how many seats in Congress and votes in the Electoral College each state gets for the next decade.
Texts and emails started rolling into Brower s phone soon after the bureau confirmed that Minnesota would hold onto the eight seats it currently has in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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CHICAGO – Preliminary data from the Census Bureau shows the country s population growth rate over the last decade was the slowest since the Great Depression as birth rates hit record lows, death rates hit record highs and international immigration to the U.S. continued to decline.
While more than a dozen states grew in population by double-digit percentages over the last decade, three states – Illinois, Mississippi and West Virginia – had a net loss of residents between 2010 and 2020. It’s unusual in the U.S. to have a state actually lose population, said Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor and senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire.