Census Indicates Future GOP Gains in Congress

With the 2010 census completed it appears that Republican-leaning states will gain at least a half dozen U.S. House seats. This is because after a census each of the House’s 435 districts must be reapportioned to make them roughly equal in population. In addition, each House district represents an electoral vote in the presidential electoral college so the the 2012 election will tilt more Republican. The Census Bureau announced on December 21 that the U.S. population on April 1st was 308,745,538, an increase from 281.4 million a decade ago. Our…

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