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Off committee, Coleman avoids Census chat with Bachmann

By Chris Steller | 07.27.09 | 12:01 pm

coleman-bachmannNorm Coleman used to sit on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau. But now that he’s out of the U.S. Senate, he won’t have to worry about turning a corner…

Dem oppo-research firm fills in Bachmann’s U.S. Census form for her

By Chris Steller | 07.02.09 | 6:57 pm

bachmann-chin-on-hand3A Democratic opposition-research firm has taken up the challenge of answering the 2010 U.S. Census questions that Rep. Michele Bachmann has vowed to leave blank: everything except the number of people living at her house. Third Coast Research…

Fellow Republicans talk down Bachmann from her U.S. Census protest

By David Weigel | 07.01.09 | 3:25 pm

WASHINGTON — Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) has spent several months trying to draw attention to the issue of whether the census will be fair — that is, whether it will exclude sampling and whether it will be conducted…

Census data puts lie to Paulsen camp’s ‘demographics’ line

By Chris Steller | 10.06.08 | 11:48 am

Is the Republican Party of Minnesota unaware of current demographics in the West Metro congressional district it has held for 50 years? U.S. Census data suggests that the suburban-identity politics that Republicans advanced last week writes off a third or more of the 3rd district’s residents.