IN PRAISE OF CONSERVATIVE RUBES

(h/t Atrios)

We certainly don't need Texas wackos having more clout in Congress.

Steve Benen finds that the scare tactics of Bachmann and Beck about the census are working:

The national average on the return rate for census forms is 34%. In much of Texas, the more Republican the area, the lower the return rate. In Briscoe County in the Panhandle, McCain/Palin won nearly 75% of the vote -- and 8% of locals are sending in their census materials. In King County, near Lubbock, McCain/Palin won nearly 93% of the vote -- and only 5% of locals are answering the census.