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Meanwhile, the current situation is a catastrophe for the homeless themselves. In March 2004, a group of volunteers conducted the Cambridge Homeless census, (conservatively) counting just under 500 individuals in the city. The warmer months find roughly 1 in 3 homeless people sleeping unsheltered; in the winter, the number remains in the dozens. In the Boston area in 2000, 44 percent of homeless people were working paying jobs in a given month—many supporting children—while only 11 percent received Supplemental Security Income from the federal government...
...talk of defending the sanctity of marriage—by barring same-sex couples from the civil rights contained therein—several of the states which voted to ban gay marriage have among the highest divorce rates in the country. Based on 2003’s Census Bureau figures, America’s favorite “values” sinkhole and bastion of Godless hedonism—Massachusetts—has the lowest divorce rate in the country...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 3 million voters didn’t cast ballots in 2000 because of confusion about their registration...
...pollsters compensate for such omissions? Once they've finished interviewing, pollsters weight the data. For example, 80% of adults are high school graduates, according to the last census, so if only 60% of the respondents are high school grads, the pollster gives their answers more weight, making them count as 80% of the sample. Most election polls--including TIME's--weight for age, sex, race, education and region of the country. A few pollsters, like Zogby, also weight for party identification, to make sure there's a representative number of Democrats, Republicans and independents in the sample. More traditional pollsters...
While Republicans have generally been quieter in their efforts, they are primed for putting the voter rolls under a microscope. In Ohio, Republican Congressman Pat Tiberi complains that four counties have voter rolls with more names than there are voting-age residents in the county, according to the last Census. In one Ohio neighborhood, Mary Poppins, George Foreman and Michael Jordan all signed up to vote. The man who submitted their forms was allegedly paid for his efforts with crack cocaine from a woman volunteering for the N.A.A.C.P. National Voter Fund in Toledo...