Are you serious or is your Alzheimer's disease worse than my wife's? The Census bureau has always been run by statistical professionals who gave zero accountability to partisan politics.

The Bureau has pioneered both statistical analysis and the use of large Mainframe computers in doing that analysis. It has always been objective and worked hard to do the most accurate analysis of our population possible.

For the first time, this proposal takes the Census Bureau from the supervision of a Senate ratified member of the cabinet to the one of the most rabidly partisan politician in the history of this country - Rahm Emanuel.

All of us, both Democrat and Republican, need to work towards an honest democracy. This requires a Bureau free of White House influence, be it Democrat or Republican. Until now, this has happened - do you support Obama's attempt to the put the Census on the same level as Chicago voting registers? I know it is hard for a democrat, but do try to answer the question honestly.