Ok I feel much better now that I've had sleep. MUCH.

Today was school. All day. Which is bleh, but I do enjoy the majority of my classes. My folklore class is to die for I love it a lot. Public opinion is interesting. And markets and media is.... LONG but i enjoy the teacher and he wants to do what he can to make it interesting so that helps.

What was I supposed to blog about.....

oh there was this.

Our public opinion teacher was talking about polls (since that is how you measure public opinion, pretty good topic of discussion i suppose) and how the census is the biggest one, and why the States have on every ten years.

It's to gauge how accurate the seats in the House of Representatives is. Which is good, if an area has grown or shrunk in size enough to warrant either a gain or loss of a seat and/or electoral vote then by all means we should do so.

And then she started talking about how the census misses 2-3% of the population. The top three list of people it misses?
1. Inmates
2.illegal immigrants
3. Homeless people.

Granted apparently people in dormitories are apparently also overlooked heavily (which i guess I can see, but as they can vote probably shouldn't be)

Our teacher acted like this was a great travesty. I looked at the girl next to me and with a look of slight disbelief mouthed/said "but they can't vote" she gave a little laugh and agreed.

Seriously? I mean... Inmates can't vote, so really? they shouldn't BE included the count for the number of house seats or electoral votes. (also they know how many people are in jail so they don't need to censi? them)

And as for illegal immigrants. Same thing. They aren't citizens of our country. therefore they can't vote, therefore they should not be included into that count either.

the only iffy hmmm not so sure about that one is the homeless people. They can't vote either cause they don't have an address but then, as citizens they should be able to, but at the same time they don't pay taxes, so the argument could go either way.


As to college students and dormitory livers, the trouble becomes where you count them. For a OSU student who is from and lives in Kansas where do you count their residence? and which state gets to claim them?