Population and Census

by Frank James The moderators for the three presidential debates and the one vice presidential debate have been named. They are, in short, the usual suspects. Moderating the presidential debates will be Jim Lehrer of Public Broadcasting's News Hour; Tom.....

by Frank James Curtis Gans is one of the nation's leading experts on voter turnout issues as director for the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate at American University. He cautions that we won't really know what happened......

A surviving shack along road once known as Slave Street on a South Carolina plantation. Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850, lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation. (Tribune......

by Frank James Utah's population grew the fastest of all states in the 12 months which ended July 1, 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, partly because it's in a region -- the west -- which generally leads the......

by Frank James and Mark Silva and updated at 5:30 pm Sen. Judd Gregg, the New Hampshire Republican whom President Barack Obama chose for Commerce secretary, has announced he is withdrawing his nomination in a stunning move, giving the new......

Republican NH Sen. Judd Gregg has withdrawn as Obama's nominee for Commerce Secretary. In a statement (text after the jump) he cites differences over the stimulus package and the census. The census, which shapes the distribution of both resources......

by Mark Silva Sen. Judd Gregg, the New Hampshire Republican whom President Barack Obama nominated for Commerce secretary only to withdraw for a certain political incompatibility, said today that, if you intend to play on a team, "you got to......

by Mark Silva This just in from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., from the heart of a sprawling standard metropolitan statistical area that is turning the old dominion, the commonwealth of Virginia, from red to blue on the political spectrum:......

by Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger and updated President Obama is expected to select former Washington state Gov. Gary Locke as commerce secretary, a position that the White House has had a difficult time filling. The president is expected to......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama today nominated Gary Locke, former governor of Washington, to serve as secretary of commerce. The former two-term Democratic governor who left office in 2005, the nation's first Chinese-American governor when he took...

by Mark Silva The man set to take charge of the 2010 Census, a University of Michigan professor who has worked at the great national headcount before, has supported the idea of statistical sampling to offset actual undercounts of minorities.......

by Mark Silva As another round of debate over illegal immigration and what to do about the millions of unauthorized immigrants already living in the United States gets underway, the Pew Research Center reports that the population has "stabilized.''...