Florida gains at the expense of New York~!!

It is that time for districts to be redrawn, House representatives to be moved around, and electoral votes to be recalculated. Due to this vast amount of change New York is slated to lose a great amount of power on Capitol Hill. With the 2010 census in it is projected that the big apple will be short two representatives, meaning two of the thirty one electoral votes the state holds in the electoral college will be passed on to another state; and the front runner for those two electoral votes is….you guessed it the sunshine state!

            The statistics from the 2010 Census show that Florida’s population has far surpassed that of New York and many other states. Placing Florida as the number three largest population in the country and with the increase in population comes two new voices in the House of Representatives. But how will Florida get those representatives when the constitution caps the number of representatives to 435 members. That is where New York comes in, Florida will gain two representatives at the expense of New York.  Meaning two of the thirty one representatives N.Y. has on Capitol Hill will now represent the sunshine state.  Not only that but the addition also gives Florida two more votes in the electoral college making the roll of the sunshine state in presidential election extremely crucial. With so much on the line N.Y. argues that it is unjust for the census to be an accurate means of determining how many House of Representatives are allotted to a state, because the geographical location of the state is so large it is impossible for to effectively count the entire number of citizens live in the state. Which the state has a point; the population of N.Y is widely distributed over a lot of land from rural areas to urban, and it would be nearly impossible to go out to the rural areas of the state and count the number of people living in the area. But my thing is the state of Florida took the Census very serious; there were letter sent out to every address recorded in the Pan Handle and if you didn’t return the letter someone hired by the government of Florida personally came to knock on the doors of many families to get a head count. So due to the fact that Florida did the work New York was not willing to do and it paid off, there is no argument to be made by N.Y in my opinion.