tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post1681853515102361526..comments2024-03-25T07:29:08.216-04:00Comments on 2 Political Junkies: ACORN, Bachman and The TribMariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-39807140030456206602009-07-02T16:02:37.944-04:002009-07-02T16:02:37.944-04:00Don't count on it, Ed.Don't count on it, Ed.CB Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14889841458170110920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-21898487729536231622009-07-02T13:06:30.525-04:002009-07-02T13:06:30.525-04:00Of course, we might be entitled to ask how many of...Of course, we might be entitled to ask how many of the 30,000 partners are national groups?<br /><br />Still, this is clearly much ado about very little. ACORN's business is helping the poor, which can include the unemployed. So when it comes time to find large numbers of people needed to go out and register voters, perhaps particularly poor and thus poorly represented voters, ACORN is in a good position to know people who can use the temporary work. Now, some people may be unemployed because they have trouble taking direction and obeying instructions, but I expect that whatever training the Census people do would reveal those kinds of people. <br /><br />Of course, Republicans want urban centers to be under counted, so they will try to starve the census of employees, and opposed any measures designed to estimate the count of people who are hard to find and physically count. Hopefully Harry Reid will do something with his sixty votes.EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.com