The Reapportionment Battle

The decision by Senator Gregg to decline the position as Commerce Secretary was directly tied to the decision by the White House to take political control over the census process. On April 2, Obama announced that he had chosen Robert Groves to be the next census director. Professor Groves rejects the constitutional mandate that the census count people and instead embraces statistical sampling to “guess” how many people live in different states and in different communities. It should surprise no one that this sampling methodology assumes that large numbers of traditional Democrat Party voters are missed in the standard census process.