Face of the tea party is female

POLITICO.com by Kenneth P. Vogel - When the tea party movement burst onto the scene last year to oppose President Barack Obama, the Democratic Congress, and the health care legislation they wanted to enact, some liberal critics were quick to label its activists as angry white men. ∴ As the populist conservative movement has gained a foothold over the past year, it’s become increasingly clear that the dismissive characterization was at least half wrong. ∴ Many of the tea party’s most influential grass-roots and national leaders are women, and a new poll released this week by Quinnipiac University suggests that women might make up a majority of the movement as well. Read more at Politico... Read More......

2010 Federal Census: A political football?

MICHAEL BARONE ON THE SHRINKING HISPANIC POPULATION: “If this trend is real and continues, I think there will be a lot fewer Hispanics found in the 2010 census enumeration than 2000-07 demographic trends would lead Hispanic leaders and others to expect. They’re going to charge that there has been a huge undercount and will press hard for the enumeration to be altered by statistical sampling.” --Instapundit Read More......