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I'll be darn if I didn't get another census-related letter today. That makes three mailings total.

03Lightningrocks wrote:I just saw something on the news I had not realized. It looks like Texas has a chance of picking up 2 or 3 seats in the senate because of the census. Apparently our population is growing. Fill out those things folks. Come out from under your tin foil hats on this one. We need to get all the seats we can to fight the libs on the east and west coast.

The number of Senate seats is fixed at two. It's house seats that are determined by population. But it gets even better because the additional seats we get in the house will be taken away from someone else who is losing population (or growing at a lesser rate). Let's suppose we add two seats and California loses two seats. Let's then suppose a vote on something was 218 yea's to 217 nay's . After a reapportionament, it would be 219 nay's to 216 yea's (assuming the new Texas reps voted the opposite as the former CA reps). That's a swing of four votes! So, whatever reps we add have a double effect.

SQLGeek wrote:

ninemm wrote: Note the extraneous comma after the word "apartment". Is this really the best they could do?

The comma is gramatically correct since each comma enumerates an item in the list. Removing it would structurally change the list.

I suspect you meant grammatically correct.

Really? How would it be different?

The first question is:

"1. How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010?"

As all of the questions are based on what happens on April 1, 2010 the intent (to me) is clearly that you have to wait until at least April 2, 2010 to complete the form.

Also, I couldn't find any reference to a deadline for submitting the completed form.

Note the extraneous comma after the word "apartment". Is this really the best they could do?