Texas: Census-Growing and could help GOP

I'm not a political buff but this news may be good news for Republicans: NY is growing at a very slow clip (3.2%) while states like Texas have added more than 3.9 million residents during the 2000s.This means Texas will perhaps get 3 more seats in the house while Ohio would lose two House seats. Losing one each would be Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts , Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. States gaining one seat would be: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. It's interesting to read older articles about the current census and perhaps in retrospect NY did better than expected? It would seem that the current census will give the GOP an edge that it so desperately needs to turn things around. One can only hope...

GOP Going After The Jewish Vote

The NYT has an article on the GOP courting the Jewish vote at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington. Sam Brownback, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson were all present to put forth their views on Iraq,the Palestinians, Russia and more. Not surprisingly Rudy Giuliani was the crowd favorite with the famous story he recalls of throwing Arafat out of a 1995 Lincoln Center concert.