Is that "difficult" quote from a separate source? I can't find it in the text of the linked report.<p>Also, the report says that both red and blue states had both overcounts and undercounts, which is a different picture than "over counts in blue states". It is accurate that more blue states had overcounts and more red states had undercounts.<p>I realise your question is rhetorical, but the report does offer a possible answer: "The 2020 Census faced many challenges such as
conducting fieldwork during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Other challenges to the 2020 Census included con-
troversy around a proposed citizenship question and
changes in the duration of the Nonresponse Followup
operation." It's plausible that those "challenges" could have been experienced unevenly by state, particularly with how politicised the pandemic and its mitigations were in the US.
Yeah, good catch. Meant to link to two sources, the census bureau admission and an article describing it. I forgot to paste one of them: <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3504546-census-blunder-may-tip-2024-to-democrats/amp/" rel="nofollow">https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3504546-census-blunder-...</a>
> We estimated undercounts of people living in census tracts that had the lowest self-response rates. Specifically, we estimated a statistically significant net undercount among people living in the 20 percent of tracts with the lowest self-response rates.<p>News hot off the press: people bred from day one to be militantly antagonistic of the federal government end up undercounted when federal government comes to do counting.<p>Reminds me of the domestic terrorists who were threatening FEMA workers during Helene and then acting surprised when FEMA workers weren't scrambling to walk up to Trump-flagged homes.
> How can you fuck up so monumentally, but then when Trump fires you somehow he’s the problem?<p>They can both be a problem, it doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. I’m sure in all the turnover Trump removed some incompetent people. He also probably removed quite a few competent people. The ratio is what matters.
The quote isn't corroborated by the report.<p>Ohio and Utah were overcounted, Illinois was undercounted, and the remaining 37 states plus DC had no statistically significant error either way. Some of the significant results are also marginal: Delaware's estimate of 5.45% has a standard error of 2.82, so the 90% confidence interval barely clears zero.
Community Note:<p>Linked article is by kook right-wing Breitbart alum Kristin Tate, whitewashed through a relatively non-biased news source (thehill.com) by way of being an opinion piece (for which The Hill explicitly disavows agreement with any presented views).
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