The bureaucrats will enter the information without blinking an eye and disgorge the statistics with nary a thought to its accuracy. I recall entering that I speak Spanish at home. So I've added to the statistics of Spanish-speakers in the US Census. I do have a friend from Brazil who calls me when he is in KC. He speaks Spanish as a third language, my Portuguese is virtually non-existent, so we speak Spanish on the phone. I guess that counts. Or did.

I'm filling mine in thus: 555.

Phil - Fine parody as usual. In the US, the ten-year census is used to apportion members of the House of Representatives and consequentially each state's Electoral Votes. President Obama intended to take direct control of the census from the Census Bureau of the Commerce Department. He also planned to employ the discredited organization ACORN in the operation...the same group that committed massive vote fraud on his behalf during the 2008 election. Oh well, as Disraeli said...there are three kinds of falsehoods - lies, damned lies, and statistics! ;D

At the risk of getting political... OMR: how much of the evidence discrediting the "discredited organization ACORN" has been discredited in its turn? Maybe I watch too much Rachel Maddow on this side of the pond, and not enough Fox to get a fair and balanced picture, but it seems to me that there has been a really rather despicable witch-hunt against ACORN from people with a political motive.

I am aware of several serious allegations made against ACORN that have been shown to have been entirely spurious and that resulted in the organization losing its funding in a manner that was subsequently described as unconstitutional.

McCain made the claim that ACORN committed "massive vote fraud", yet that claim was itself called "breathtakingly inaccurate". If Disraeli had lived today, he'd probably have added a fourth falsehood: political campaign assertions.