by Teri O'Brien
Remember when Obama, in the first of many power grabs, took over the Census? Now, what has become his trademark incompetence, an infection that he spreads to everything he touches, has shown up there. As the Chicago Tribune reports:
Mistakes made on some 2010 census forms led the U.S. Census Bureau to report an "artificially inflated" number of same-sex households in August, census officials said Tuesday.
While the Census Bureau reported 901,997 same-sex households nationally in August, new calculations of the 2010 census indicate there are 648,464 such households.
Or perhaps it’s not incompetence. That’s the perennial question with the One; that is, is it the incompetence or the lefty agenda? (Back in 2009, John Fund explored the reasons why it might be very useful to Obama to take over the Census.)
The article contains another interesting tidbit:
"What went wrong is something that we have known about for some time," said UCLA School of Law demographer Gary Gates, whom the census called in to review the revised figures for accuracy.
Unclear census forms led heterosexual couples in some cases to check boxes identifying themselves as same-sex couples, Gates said.
"There are something like 60 million different-sex (heterosexual) couples in the U.S., and if five or six per thousand make a mistake, the data come in looking like there are far more same-sex couples," said Gates, who studies sexual orientation as it pertains to law and public policy.
MMM…people too stupid to fill out a census form? Can you say “hanging chad?” What are the chances that they are Obama voters?
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