What Are The Odds? Census Mistakes Overwhelmingly Benefit Democrats

By: Shawn Fleetwood

September 27, 2022

A recent bombshell report reveals that U.S. census errors could provide significant and unfair advantages for Democrats in future elections, so naturally America’s corporate media have chosen to let those errors quietly slide.

Back in May, the U.S. Census Bureau released findings from its 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES), a survey in which “the Census Bureau interviews a sampling of households across the country and then compares the results with actual responses from those households in the original 2020 Census records.” As noted by the Census Bureau, the results of the survey “cannot be used to change the final census count.”

While the agency found that the 2020 Census counts for 36 states and Washington D.C. were generally accurate, it also discovered that there werepopulation undercounts in six states and overcounts in eight. When analyzing the states where significant counting errors were made, however, a startling pattern begins to emerge.

As detailed in the report, the six states that experienced population undercounts were Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. All but one (Illinois) of these states voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections and could be considered reliably Republican jurisdictions.

Conversely, a review of the eight states where overcounting occurred (Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah) finds that all but two (Ohio and Utah) voted for the Democrat nominee in the two previous presidential contests and could be considered electoral strongholds for the Democrat Party.

According to Hans von Spakovsky, the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, such counting errors present numerous implications for the apportionment of congressional seats for the next decade.

“As a result of these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats, Texas lost out on an additional seat, Minnesota and Rhode Island each retained a congressional seat that should have been lost, and Colorado gained a new seat to which it had no right,” Spakovsky writes. “Florida, for example, was undercounted by 761,094 individuals while it only needed ‘around 171,500 more residents to gain an extra seat.’ Texas needed only ‘189,000 more residents to gain another congressional seat’ but was undercounted by 560,319 residents. Minnesota would have lost a congressional seat if the Census had counted 26 fewer residents; the PES says Minnesota was overcounted by 216,971 individuals.”

“Assuming the accuracy of the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey and the errors it has revealed,certain states will be shorted in their congressional representation until after the 2030 Census, while other states will get more representation than they are entitled to,” he added.

In addition to congressional apportionment, the population miscalculations will alsosimultaneously affect the Electoral College map for the 2024 and 2028 presidential elections. Taking into account Spakovsky’s calculations, an increasingly conservative Florida, for instance, should potentially have 32 electoral votes for the next decade, while Democrat-leaning states such as Minnesota and Rhode Island should have only nine and three votes, respectively.

Despite the major impact the counting errors will have on Americans’ congressional representation and future elections, the U.S. Census Bureau says it cannot explain how such blunders occurred in the first place.

“While the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey can estimate undercounts and overcounts in the census, PES data cannot answer why a particular state may have experienced one,” the agency said in its report.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/27/what-are-the-odds-census-mistakes-overwhelmingly-benefit-democrats/

Add the census bureau to a comped federal agency, like NARA, and they did the census in 2020 under Trump. Where are the federal lawsuits demanding they correct their intentional errors?

56 GOP Members Beg Their Colleagues To Do Anything To Stop Biden’s Destructive Agenda

By: Shawn Fleetwood

September 27, 2022

Fifty-six congressional Republicans are urging their colleagues in the House and Senate to vote against a wasteful, stopgap spending measure that would fund the federal government — and a number of Democrats’ wasteful wish-list items — through the middle of December.

In a letter sent to his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives, Texas Rep. Chip Roy explained how Congress’s current spending habits are “fueling rampant inflation and funding the Biden administration’s radical agenda,” which includes “empowering authoritarian bureaucrats at agencies like the IRS and FBI, implementing open-border policies that are threatening [American] communities, imposing COVID-19 mandates that shut down schools,” and “forcing [U.S.] military servicemembers out of their jobs, and advancing self-destructive energy policies.”

“As the September 30th federal funding deadline approaches, Republicans must do what is necessary to ensure that not one additional penny will go toward this administration’s radical, inflationary agenda,” the letter said. “Any legislation that sets the stage for a ‘lame duck’ fight on government funding gives Democrats one final opportunity to pass that agenda.”

To date, the letter has been signed by 42 House Republicans. Utah Sen. Mike Lee has also sent a similarly worded letter to his GOP colleagues in the Senate, which has garnered 14 signers total.

With funding for the federal government set to run out by the end of the week, Congress is scrambling to pass some form of a Continuing Resolution, or “CR,” to avert a partial government shutdown. Previous estimates have shown that the vast majority of the federal government remains fully operational during a shutdown, with only about 17 percent of total federal operations ceasing during such an event.

Released late Monday night by Senate Democrat leadership, the proposed spending package would keep the government funded through Dec. 16 and, per usual, includes numerous garbage spending items. (the bill is 237 pages long)

The legislation “includes roughly $12 billion for Ukraine assistance,” NPR reported on Tuesday, which would bring the U.S. spending total for the country Russia invaded earlier this year to a whopping $65 billion.

The measure also includes “$1 billion to boost funding for a low income home heating program,” as well as legislation drafted by

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., that would overhaul “how the government approves permits for energy production.”

Manchin had previously negotiated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to have the bill attached to the CR in exchange for supporting the deceptively named “Inflation Reduction Act.”

“Why aren’t all Republicans on [this] letter,” Roy said during a recent interview, citing his efforts to fiscally stymie Biden’s agenda. “If you’re not going to be willing to pick a fight on the border, or pick a fight on vaccine mandates, or pick a fight on the energy destruction of this country … can you at least just not give Democrats the pen again?”

The Senate is currently scheduled to hold a procedural vote on the proposed CR on Tuesday evening, according to NPR.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/27/56-gop-members-beg-their-colleagues-to-do-anything-to-stop-bidens-destructive-agenda/

Unfucking believable they had to beg republicans to vote against it

Actual Police Endorse Ron Johnson After Democrat Opponent Faked Law Enforcement Support

By: Sophia Corso

September 28, 2022

The Milwaukee Police Association on Monday endorsed pro-law enforcement Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., for the November election, expressing their support for the incumbent over his anti-police opponent, Democrat Mandela Barnes.

“During these increasingly trying times, the over 1,400 men and women of the Milwaukee Police Association appreciate leaders like you who are willing to stand and be an advocate for Law Enforcement Professionals,” the Milwaukee Police Association wrote in its endorsement letter.

Johnson has made his pro-law-enforcement stance quite clear throughout his time in Congress. The senator has advocated for “better fund[ing]” for police, saying it’s dangerous for communities and police when law enforcement is “understaffed or defunded.”

During National Police Week this past May, the Wisconsin senator stated, “With crime reaching record highs across the country and the increase in officers killed on the job, the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities deserve our support. Their heroism keeps our families safe and we thank the officers for their service.”

Johnson has also spoken out against the rise in crime perpetuated by “radical left, soft on crime policies,” stressing the need for strong police throughout Wisconsin. “It’s because the policies, the rhetoric of the radical left is dispiriting law enforcement. Who is going to keep us safe? How can we expect to protect our citizens in our communities if we attack the police? If we propose defunding?” Johnson said.

Just last month, Sen. Johnson hosted a roundtable on U.S. border security, drawing attention to the failed border policies of the Biden administration and voicing his support for secure borders through law enforcement.

Barnes — Johnson’s opponent for the November election — has quite a track record of opposing law enforcement. “Defunding the police only dreams of being as radical as a Donald Trump pardon,” Barnes tweeted in 2020, implying either his support for the “defund the police” movement or at least his belief that this radical stance is non-extremist. Barnes has also been photographed holding a T-shirt that says “Abolish ICE,” an anti-law enforcement movement that supports dismantling border security in the name of protecting human rights.

Despite his attempts to distance himself from “defund the police” and other anti-law-enforcement movements, Barnes has received multiple endorsements from groups that advocate for these policies. And when Barnes’ campaign released a list of his law enforcement endorsements, two of the names were removed, with those police officers stating they never endorsed him.

After seeing the rise in crime as a result of failed left-wing policies, Wisconsin law enforcers know that supporting a candidate like Barnes will not improve the safety of their state. That’s why a more than 1,400-member police association enthusiastically backs Johnson — while his opponent fakes police endorsements.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/28/actual-police-endorse-ron-johnson-after-democrat-opponent-faked-law-enforcement-support/