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6 Things You Need To Know About Running A Social Media Program: The Audience
This is part 3 of 6 in the series "6 Things You Need to Know About Running A Social Media Program". You can read part 1 "The Client" here, it has a full introduction. Part 2 "The Product" is here.
I've created this list of "things you must know" mostly based upon very positive experiences I've had, but also from negative ones…things that I've either experienced myself or seen others do. This isn't a tactical post, I think I write plenty of those. Instead, this is my advice to those that are going to lend their expertise to others, and hopefully by checking these off you will avoid some common mistakes that often result in unmet expectations, from one side or the other…or both.
Know Your Audience
Your audience is not "everybody" unless you are selling oxygen or religion…and even then there are plenty of people that don't want either. If you really think you can reach everybody, you are sorely mistaken. You're also going to be working 24/7 and going broke, because you cannot target everybody. Now that we have established that, this is another great conversation to have with your client. They probably have a pretty good idea of who their target audience is; make sure you understand who they are going after. If you've done your homework (by knowing the product) then you can and should add to this conversation. Once you understand the person that you are trying to reach you can start developing a strategy that will include some social media channels but not others. Your strategy should also tell you when you should be active online (based upon when the target audience is), how often to engage them and what sort of external resources you should link to that will add value to the community. If your client has no idea who they are targeting, I would suggest that you consider working this out with them before you start, it will prevent a lot of frustration from both sides.
You'll notice that I said you will want to utilize some social media channels but not others…if you understand who your audience is, then you should also understand where your audience is and where they are not. For example, although MySpace has been dropped by users like a bad habit as of late, they also recently announced a new focus on music. It would stand to reason then that if your client is pitching music service, or is a band, producer, etc. then MySpace is still a viable (and reasonably good) social media outlet for them. If, on the other hand, your client produces a durable good like car tires then putting effort into MySpace is likely a waste of time and resources because your core audience won't be there. Sure, people that listen to music do drive cars and therefore need tires, but this is the "appeal to everybody" mentality that will have you spinning your wheels in social media. Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun, forgive me…it's true though.
To understand your audience is to understand the timing and frequency of engagement as well. By "engagement" I mean @ replies on Twitter, comments on Facebook threads and blog/forum posts, and other one-to-one engagement. Don't confuse engagement with publication…putting a post up that links to a new product launch is not engagement, it's information sharing. I'm talking about real, honest-to-goodness active engagement with your consumers. Not all audiences react the same to engagement and timing; some expect a very high level of interaction with the brand (especially in the tech sector) and some simply want to sit back and watch, they don't need the always-on attention of the social media presence even though they are in the space themselves.
By knowing your audience you will also understand want other products, services and resources they would like other than your own brand. When dealing with social media, it's important to offer value to your consumers, and often times that means linking to resources outside of your client's ecosystem. While many traditional marketers would scoff at this idea, in my experience I have found that the more I offer to the community I'm speaking with that doesn't necessarily link directly to the client's site, the more retention we see from the community. In other words, when I talk about and link to news stories, product offerings and other things I think the community would find interesting, the higher the follower/friend count goes and likewise the level of engagement. Simply put, don't just talk about yourself. I have worked with a lot of traditional media and marketing types, and almost without exception they feel that this is a bad idea, "always keep the focus on your own product", they say. Social media is a different beast altogether, and the community knows this. Of course that doesn't mean you should link to things your direct competitors are doing, but use your common sense…if you find an article that you think would be good for your audience even though it's not related to your client, bring some attention to it! Your audience will appreciate you for it. As for the client, well…that's another story. It's going to take some time to build up trust from them that this strategy is actually good for them overall.
If you spend the time to truly understand who it is that you are speaking to and with, your client is going to see measurable gains in some key areas like follow count and engagement, not to mention positive sentiment. If you've been put in a position in which you have to roll out programs and channels very quickly and you don't have time to do the research in advance, may I suggest a bold tactic? Ask them what they like. Remember, social media is a conversation and not a platform, so don't be afraid to talk to your audience and ask them what they are looking for. The result may surprise you and your client, likely in a very good way.
In the next post I will talk about what it means to know the channels.
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Thanks for all the comments on the third anniversary post. The blog rested for a couple of days, enjoying the moment, but now it's back for a fourth year of interesting insights, fascinating facts, titillating trivia and contemporary commentary, and much, much more.
Back to the comments, and Graeme Dand, aka The Football Analyst, left a comment, and his blog has been added to the blog roll on the right. He was quite right in that I didn't know he was now blogging again, but having had a quick look, I now know what the reference to System 8-22 in The Portfolio Investor's blog post was all about. Graeme mentions that he has read every single post since the blogs inception, which no doubt is a big factor in his success these days.
Mark made an interesting comment. He mentioned that my running (jogging) might be a secret to keeping the blog (pun intended) running, and that the time spent in the solitude this activity provides is a source for ideas. It's actually only in the last few months that I have been running with any frequency, and even then usually only two or three times a week. After two knee surgeries, I have to baby it somewhat, but yes, I do often find myself thinking about ideas for the blog as I struggle for oxygen. Running is a great stress reliever, and frees up the mind like nothing else. There are too many distractions at the gym for my liking, and cycling requires a level of awareness of one's surroundings that running doesn't need, so in my opinion, a run or walk in a scenic area takes some beating.
HCE's blog is also a stayer, with over 1,000 posts and on the narrower theme of 2-year-old horses, that's quite impressive!
And thanks again to everyone else who took the time to comment.
I mentioned that my next post would reveal a profitable strategy for the closing weeks of the football season, but I need to delay this for a few days. I want to look at a few leagues other than the two I used it in last season, and see just how brilliant a system it is before I put it out there complete with ROIs. Be patient – we have a break this weekend with international games that really don't set the pulse racing (something else that running is good for).
Now, did I win today, or lose £1,400? Earlier today, in round figures, I made a profit of £200 on the early morning Los Angeles Clippers v Washington Wizards game. It was late on in one of those games where the market just couldn't get away from making the Clippers, favoured by 13.5 on the handicap, big favourites in the Match Odds markets even though the game was close. Over the years, backing the 'dog in these games is a long-term winning strategy. As I have written before, if two teams are separated by two or three points after three quarters of the game has been played, then on the night, there is not much to choose between them. When the Wizards finally went ahead in the closing stages of regulation time, and I could lay off at 1.3, I was sitting very pretty with £1,000 green all over. The Clippers hit a three-pointer to tie the game and send it to overtime, at the start of which, the Clippers were around 1.5. Why?
So again I layed the Clippers, and at the start of the second overtime period, I was now 1,600 green all over with the Clippers again too short at 1.5. Unfortunately, this time I got caught out. Despite being, in my opinion, appalling value at 1.5, and with their two stars in foul trouble, the Clippers scored first, and won going away in the end, and my £6k green on the Wizards never made it to my balance, and while £200 at the start of my involvement would have been acceptable, having at one time been green to the tune of eight times as much, the usual sweetness of the win had a slightly sour taste to it.
It's all about the expectation. When I'm in a hole and somehow manage to emerge from a market with a small green, or even a small red, I'm a lot happier than I am when winning £200 after having been ahead by much more earlier. A draw in football is always a more pleasing result when coming from behind. If you get ahead, you can't help but start to start thinking in terms of that outcome being the final one, and similarly if you get behind, there's an acceptance that this is just not going to be your day. When the final outcome differs to that, you perceive the result from a different perspective.
Anyway, while things could have been better, it just wasn't to be today, but with these types of bets, the fact that these bets are value means they are profitable long-term. Sadly that doesn't mean they're profitable every time. I expect too much.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Wosing Or Linning?
2 comments:
- Average Guy said...
"At the end of the day, if you're the sort of person who has problems with discipline, you're unlikely to honestly report all your bets anyway."
As usual very perceptive and accurate. My ranting BLOG stemmed from he belief that blogging would impose self discipline, how wrong was I? I don't report profits / losses any more as my selective amnesia meant I omitted the trades I preferred to forget. Don't know how your writing style has evolved as I'm a recent convert but further evolution is not necessary. Great work congrats on the 3 years.
- 25 March 2011 at 02:14
- Graeme Dand said...
One thing that hasn't changed during the 3 years Cassini has been your sharp wit and humour!
I'll forward you 10% of my profits this season as a show of gratitude on my behalf.
Thanks for the blog link.
- 25 March 2011 at 12:29


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Deluxe two CD edition includes a bonus CD that contains instrumental versions of all the album tracks. 2012 album from the British Synthpop duo. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe recorded Elysium earlier this year in Los Angeles, the first time they have recorded an album in America. They co-produced the record with US producer Andrew Dawson, who has won three Grammys for his work on Kanye West's albums. Elysium features 12 new songs which display a warm, deep electronic sound, and includes orchestral arrangements by Joachim Horsley, Andrew Dawson and Ben Leathers. Backing vocals are provided on many of the tracks by veteran singers Oren, Maxine and Julie Waters (whose long career spans sessions with the Jackson Five to Adele), and singer/songwriter James Fauntleroy. Pet Shop Boys said: "It was to inspiring to make an album in Los Angeles, and to work with a producer from a different musical genre, who has brought a new dimension to our music".
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A magnificent weather day brought out 41 walkers – quite a crowd – to the White Horse car park. The walk was firstly beside the motorway where, thankfully, traffic noise was reduced by the easterly breeze. By the time we had reached Quarry Barton and Bradley Brook Bridge 16 birds, including Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Jay and Mallard, had been seen. Then, at a bridge over the River Frome, we spotted Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher, Sparrowhawk, Goldfinch, Goldcrest and Treecreeper. A refreshment break was held in Huckford Old Quarry Nature Reserve before walking beside the Frome and then up to Bury Hill Iron Age Fort. Dropping back down to river level, Dipper, Bullfinch, Green Woodpecker, Grey Heron and Moorhen brought the total to 37 species on a very varied habitat walk of about four miles in perfect conditions.
David Tombs
26 members gathered on a mild spring morning for this walk through varied habitat. Near the start, some agitated corvids drew attention to a Sparrowhawk which flew into a dense hedge and disappeared. Two Jays were seen and the walk was notable for the number of Jays recorded (eight by this observer.) A Blackcap was heard and then seen sitting prominently on a garden hedge. The walk followed the dramway footpath at the start. Its tall hedges proved excellent cover for birds and as well as the more common species there were stunning male Bullfinches. Re-crossing the A420 we entered the Warmley Forest Park where hawthorns were beginning to show green shoots and there was a bank of flowering primroses. Another Sparrowhawk flew over and several Buzzards were seen during the morning. A Mistle Thrush was heard and finally located. A Great Spotted Woodpecker was watched and a distant Green Woodpecker was heard. Ravens flew over as we watched bees busily entering and leaving a hole in an oak tree. Two Mad March Hares galloped around the fields, where two Roe Deer were lying beneath a hedge. The total number of bird species seen was 27. Thank you to David for leading this enjoyable walk.
Margaret Gorely
It was a cool misty morning, but 34 birders arrived in The Perrings to walk around the lake, along Youngwood Lane and out towards Chelvey church and manor. The lake held the usual Coots, Swans and Canada Geese, but seven Shovelers gave us a fly past and there were a pair of Gadwalls, a few Tufted Ducks and a female Pochard. A Sparrowhawk was spotted whilst we waited to start our walk, and a Buzzard was down in the field. It then sat in a tree studying us studying it! The male Wood Duck and male Muscovy Duck were still present, and the trees around the lake had Goldfinches, Greenfinches, tits and a Song Thrush singing. One lucky person saw a Bullfinch and a few of us heard a newly-arrived Chiffchaff. In the field by Coombe Grange Farm the wild daffodils were in flower and the horse fields held Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtails and Greenfinches. Further along, a Romanian lorry had got stuck, having been misdirected by sat-nav into an unsuitably narrow lane. We located the farm he needed and he was linked up with the farmer! Later, Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers were added to the list, the latter heard drumming, and Geoff found another Chiffchaff. We also saw Jay, Ravens and a Heron. 48 species were seen altogether in spite of poor visibility – a good morning.
Sue Prince
14 members met up at the car park by Speech House on a bright and sunny morning to walk the surrounding woodland and look at the nearby pools. Leaving the car park we observed Nuthatch, Tree Creeper and Redpoll moving through the trees plus a Mistle Thrush. Moving on towards Woorgreens Lake we saw Brambling, Green Woodpecker, more Redpoll, a small flock of Siskin, heard and then observed a Willow Tit, and also saw Longtailed Tit, Coal Tit and a number of Goldcrest. At the Lake we saw Goosander, Tufted Duck and Grey Wagtail and a Reed Bunting was spotted by most. We took a route from the car park past the rear of Speech House and back through the Arboretum to the car park, where we observed a pair of Crossbill in the trees above us. We moved to New Fancy View where we observed a Goshawk sitting in a tree at fairly close distance, plus another four birds soaring above the forest tree line. We saw Raven and a Sparrowhawk before leaving for Cannop Pools where we saw Mandarin, plus Little Grebe and Marsh Tit. An early pre-meet walk in the woodland area of Parkend Church by four members produced Hawfinch, Brambling, Redpoll and Great Spotted Woodpecker. Total number of species recorded was 47. A good day's birding was enjoyed by all.
Charles Stapleton
As I arrived to meet up with the club members on the coach at Exminster, the rain which had been heavy all morning in Devon stopped. As we made our way down the lane towards the river, wildfowl such as Teal, Shoveler, Pintail and Wigeon were busy feeding on the flooded pools and in amongst the Wigeon we were rewarded with good views of the American Wigeon that had been in the area all winter. Canada Geese were also feeding in the fields and five Barnacle Geese were with them; these birds, presumably of wild origin, had arrived a couple of days earlier. As we started to look at the waders in the flooded fields, such as Lapwing, Golden Plover and Blacktailed Godwit, all the birds lifted and a Peregrine passed through them and gave us all good views as it sat on the nearby electrical pylon. As we arrived at the canal we managed a glimpse of some Avocets on the river – this would be our only view of the day. Large numbers of Brent Geese flew over our heads into the fields but alas the Red-breasted Goose reported recently had presumably left. As we made our way towards the Turf Hotel Cetti's 10 Warbler was heard in the nearby bushes. Reaching the hotel (open for Coffee in March, usually closed when we visit in January!), waders were feeding on the mud on the incoming tide – Dunlin, Curlew, Redshank, Knot, Grey Plover, Bar and Black-tailed Godwits, with a few Red-breasted Mergansers swimming in the tidal passages. Making our way down to meet up with the coach at Powderham we saw Little Egrets in the fields and more Brent Geese, with Buzzard and Sparrowhawk over the distant trees. On arrival at Dawlish Warren we made our way to the hide on the point for the wader roost. From the lifeguard station en route we managed to see Common Scoter, Slavonian Grebe, Eider Duck and Great Crested Grebe on the sea. As the tide was not that high the wader roost was not that numerous but we did see Knot, Dunlin, Sanderling, Turnstone, Redshank, Greenshank, more godwits, and Oystercatchers. At the Visitor Centre on the walk back, some of us checked out the bird feeders and in amongst the Greenfinch and Chaffinches we were rewarded with good views of a pair of Brambling.
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So Many Tears by 2Pac
For the days that can be described as "nope." For the days where all your social media check-ins will come from your bed. For the days you say things can't possibly be worse...then you stress and have anxiety worrying about how it could be worse.
Cloudy Days is the solemn soundtrack of those days.
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Individual counseling
Counseling Services has a diverse professional staff equipped to assist clients with a wide range of personal, emotional and relational difficulties. Students seek counseling for a variety of concerns:
- Depression and sadness
- Anxiety and worry
- Stress
- Relationship concerns
- Managing multiple roles and stressors
- Grief/Loss
- Substance abuse
- Adjusting to changes
- Suicidal thoughts
- Crisis or Trauma
- Family issues
- Motivation problems
- Eating/Body image problems
- Self-harm
- Roommate issues
- Difficulty studying
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- Attention problems
- Academic concerns
- Self-esteem problems
- Discrimination concerns
- Social anxiety
Counseling can help students better understand the nature of their concerns and develop strategies for change. This may involve changing self-defeating behaviors, understanding uncomfortable feelings, or enhancing personal strengths and abilities.
Counseling Services does not provide documentation for emotional support animals; this is outside our scope of care.
Couples counseling
Relationship counseling is available to any couple as long as one of the partners is a UMKC student, faculty or staff member. Couples counseling offers opportunities for couples to better understand themselves and their partner, resolve conflict, improve communication and work toward healthier relationship patterns.
Counseling services for faculty and staff
UMKC faculty and staff are eligible for a free individual or couples intake session to discuss their concerns and to help determine an appropriate next step for treatment. This could include a referral to a therapist or other resources in the community or additional therapy sessions at Counseling Services.
There is a charge of $30 (beginning August 1, 2017) per therapy session after the initial intake appointment, payable by cash or check. Faculty and staff with medical benefits also have access to mental health services through UnitedHealthcare. All university employees may also use the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers up to three counseling sessions. Counseling Services does not accept insurance.
What to expect from counseling
Considering counseling?
You may have decided to seek counseling, but now you're unsure of what to expect and may even feel nervous. Your counselor is trained to assist you with feeling comfortable while also fostering your personal development. As you consider beginning, it is best to approach it with openness for establishing a relationship with your counselor, determining realistic goals and "trying on" different ways of viewing yourself and any changes you may want to make in your life.
How do I begin?
An initial appointment is scheduled with one of the staff counselors by calling the main number at 816-235-1635. We ask that you arrive at Counseling Services 45 minutes before your first appointment to complete initial paperwork. You will then meet with the counselor for approximately 25-30 minutes to further discuss what has brought you to counseling and to determine what may be most helpful for how you proceed. You may be recommended to join one of our groups, a workshop, or individual or coupes counseling.
The counselor may also ask questions that do not seem directly related to your initial concern. However, this provides helpful information to the counselor in getting the "big picture" for how you are doing. If you proceed with counseling at our agency, you will then be matched with one of our staff members based upon your needs and their availability. This may or may not be the initial counselor with whom you talked.
What will happen in counseling?
Your counselor will assist you in further understanding your concern, clarifying options for proceeding and supporting you in determining what will be most helpful for you. Counselors can help you express thoughts and feelings, while also pointing out a different perspective you may not have considered. They may provide information or suggestions, but generally, they do not give direct advice or try to make decisions for you. Your counselor can assist you in defining appropriate and goals. The amount of effort you put into the process will directly impact your level of satisfaction and success with the process.
Scope and limitations of service
UMKC Counseling Services provides a range of psychological services to eligible students, staff and faculty. We are committed to providing treatment in the most ethical and professional manner, ensuring we remain within our scope of psychological expertise.
We only provide services to currently enrolled students or faculty/staff affiliated with UMKC. Beginning summer 2018 and moving forward, students will need to be enrolled in summer classes to receive services during summer semesters.
UMKC Counseling Services may refuse or limit treatment, including Assessment Services, due to the following:
Individuals who demonstrate a serious lack of motivation or engagement in treatment, as evidenced by poor attendance to appointments, lack of follow-through on recommendations or who are unwilling to address the disorder in question
Individuals who are already receiving counseling services from another provider and do not end that treatment
Individuals who are seeking counseling as a requirement of a class and who are not otherwise motivated for or are in need of treatment
Individuals who need more intensive or extensive treatment than can be provided at Counseling Services (e.g. multiple weekly appointments, uninterrupted long-term care, and/or frequent between session supports)
Individuals with a history of longstanding, seriously maladaptive interpersonal behaviors that result in severe relationship problems which hinder effective work in session
Individuals with a recent history of numerous suicide attempts, severe self-injury or multiple psychiatric hospitalizations
Individuals with significant or chronic disordered eating symptoms which require intensive outpatient or residential treatment and whose symptoms pose medical danger
Individuals with significant or chronic substance use which requires intensive outpatient or residential treatment, detox, or hospitalization or whose symptoms pose medical danger
Individuals whose needs fall outside the clinical expertise of the Counseling Services staff
Individuals with active psychotic symptoms at risk for progressive deterioration of functioning and in need of intensive treatment for stabilization
Individuals who engage in inappropriate, harassing, menacing, threatening or violent behaviors toward Counseling Services staff or visitors of the Counseling Services Office
Individuals who are only seeking documentation for SAP Appeals and/or withdrawing from classes who do not already have an established relationship with the Counseling Services Office
We do not provide any services or documentation for overall legal concerns (except if records are requested) which can include but are not limited to the following:
Court Mandated Treatment
Emotional Support or Service Animals
Child Custody/Parenting/Adoption
Exuse or Clearance for Employment
Disability Claims (e.g., Social Security, Short Term Disability)
Employment and/or Military Fitness
We do not and cannot legally provide any type of on-line and/or tele-therapy in any form. We only provide services at the Volker and Health Sciences campuses.
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By turning the 2020 census into a political tool, the Trump administration can make a whiter, more conservative America than actually exists.
A lot of the damage of Donald Trump's administration is big, dramatic, and immediately obvious. His attacks on national monuments, for example, or his pardon of Joe Arpaio, or his push to ramp up deportations and rescind DACA—these are big, concrete spectacles. But Trump is also doing long-lasting damage in subtler ways , like flooding courts with unqualified ideologues and anti-gay bloggers. It's harder to keep track of the drier, more policy-focused stuff when the administration is lighting so many fires so often. But one of the driest, farthest-reaching federal projects will start under Trump's leadership: the 2020 census.
While it's easy to forget about the census, it affects the makeup of Congress, the enforcement of laws (civil rights laws in particular), and over $600 billion in federal funding for local communities. Though it historically undercounts minorities, it's still a way to show demographic change and growing influence of non-white Americans. And, despite what you might think, it's not intended to count U.S. citizens only: The census is meant to tally the total number of people living in the United States, regardless of citizenship.
Managing the census is usually an apolitical affair, but the Trump administration has been working to change that for months. First, they considered handing control of the census over to Thomas Brunell, a supporter of Republican gerrymandering. Now, at the behest of the Justice Department, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has announced that the 2020 census will ask about U.S. citizenship, a move that critics say is designed to intimidate both documented and undocumented immigrants out of participating. Both New York and California are suing to block the addition.
By skewing the design of the census, it's possible to deliberately undercount people in areas that are majority non-white and majority Democrat. The president has surrounded himself with white-nationalist advisers like anti-immigrant zealots Stephen Miller and John Kelly, and if the administration can't actually stop the increasing racial diversity in the U.S., they can use the census to present a fake America that preserves white, conservative political power.
Reporter Ari Berman has written about voting rights for The Nation, Mother Jones, and Rolling Stone, and also in his own book, Give Us the Ballot. He keeps a close eye on attacks on the right to vote in the U.S., and he talked with GQ back in January—when Brunell was still in contention for the job—about how the census can be used as a weapon against non-white and Democratic voters. (Read his most recent piece for Mother Jones here.) The following has been edited and condensed.
GQ: So what sort of damage can a politically driven census do?
Ari Berman: Well, $600 billion in federal funding is derived from census data. Things like Medicaid, or funding for education or highways or infrastructure, all of that is based on the census. The thing people need to understand about the census is it's the basis for so many things that happen in America. It's the baseline for redistricting, for $600 billion in federal spending, for all sorts of decisions that businesses and governments and people make. It's one of the oldest things that's been done in America. It was written into the original constitution, it's been performed every ten years since 1790, and if you mess it up there's no do-over. After the 2020 census takes place, you can't go back in 2021 and say, "Oops, we messed this up, let's tweak it." So if you have a politically motivated, inaccurate census, that's gonna affect every aspect of American life. But a lot of people aren't going to see it until after it happens.
How does the right benefit from skewing the census? What exactly does the GOP get out of it?
I think there are Republicans and conservatives who want to manipulate the census for their own purposes. They want to have fewer people of color, fewer immigrants, and by extension fewer Democrats to respond to the census so that those areas get less representation, less federal funding; they essentially count less in terms of the overall count of people in America. Then I think there are also people who want to use the census in particular to benefit Republican redistricting efforts. So instead of having a census that accurately counts everyone in America, this is turning into a tool of the Republican Party, which I think is very dangerous and not what the census is about.
"Some people in the Trump administration, and some in the Republican Party, want to add a question about citizenship because they know it will repress response rates in immigrant communities. That will mean that urban and Democratic communities will get fewer seats than more rural, white, Republican areas."
So one of the big concerns is that this will make it easier to gerrymander states?
You have to take a step back and say first off the census is the basis for how seats are allocated. So before you even get to the gerrymandering, you get into the allocation of seats. And if there's not an accurate census, some areas are gonna be prioritized over others and some communities will be prioritized over others. So if you're a Republican trying to manipulate the census, the first thing you do is you would try to make sure as many white people who vote Republican are counted and as few minorities and Democratic communities are counted—therefore Republican areas get more seats and Democratic areas get fewer seats. And that's how you would essentially gerrymander the census before any actual gerrymandering by state legislators begins.
The Justice Department is pushing for the 2020 census to explicitly ask about citizenship status, claiming that it's important for preventing voter fraud, though they haven't been able to back that up. With Trump turning on DACA recipients and ICE deporting even undocumented veterans, there's understandably a lot of reason for immigrants to be skeptical about turning over more information to the federal government. But on a broader scale, what would be the impact of a citizenship question?
I think some people in the Trump administration, and some in the Republican party, want to add a question about citizenship because they know it will repress response rates in immigrant communities. That will mean that urban and Democratic communities will get fewer seats than more rural, white, Republican areas. Also what I think they're trying to do is gather data on citizenship so they can argue that districts should be drawn just based on citizenship and not based on total population, which is the way that it's currently done. There was a unanimous Supreme Court case in 2016 that held that districts are supposed to be based on total population: if you're here, you're a functioning person in America, you work, you use public services, then you have needs that elected officials have to respond to. Republicans are going to try to get around that decision by saying, "Look, we have this citizenship data, why can't we just draw data based on citizens only?" And that would further shift seats and resources from Democratic areas to Republican areas.
A lot of progressives seem enthusiastic right now about voting rights cases in the Supreme Court pipeline—lower courts ruled that both North Carolina and Pennsylvania had unconstitutionally gerrymandered their districts, for example. But this is still the Court that destroyed the Voting Rights Act, and John Roberts has famously been a crusader for limiting access to voting. Should we be skeptical about them weighing in on these issues?
The history of this Supreme Court when it comes to voting rights makes me very cautious about any sort of optimism about what they might do. I do think Justice Anthony Kennedy has signaled some kind of willingness, we don't know how much willingness, to do something about racial and partisan gerrymandering. The Supreme Court has already said that too much racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional, and they've said that for a long time, including in places like North Carolina in the last year or so. What they haven't said is whether partisan gerrymandering, where you draw districts for the sole purpose of benefiting one party, is unconstitutional. And that's what we're waiting to hear in Wisconsin, in Maryland, in North Carolina, and in Texas. It's certainly clear that lower courts, state and federal courts, have signaled a willingness to strike down both partisan and racial gerrymandering, but the Supreme Court's not there yet.
A lot of these issues—like redistricting, or administration of the census—seem abstract and happening so high up that it's hard to imagine how to work against them. What are some of the ways people are fighting against these elaborate schemes to suppress voting?
I think at a time when many states are restricting voting rights, it's important to be as aggressive as possible in expanding them. Some states are beginning to take really bold steps to expand political participation. For example, in 2016 Oregon became the first state to adopt automatic voter registration. Basically, if you go to the DMV and the state of Oregon can confirm that you're 18 or over, that you're an Oregon resident, that you're a US citizen, they'll automatically register you to vote, and you can opt out if you want. In the last election, Oregon registered 300,000 new people and had the highest increase in voter turnout—even though it wasn't a swing state. There's gonna be a ballot measure in Florida in 2018 to overturn their felon disenfranchisement law, which prevents 1.7 million people in Florida from voting, including one in five African-Americans. There are gonna be ballot initiatives in Michigan to get rid of partisan gerrymandering. I think this is really important because so much attention is on Trump and secondarily on the Congress. But while the Trump administration is opposed to expansive voting rights and the Congress is deadlocked, a lot of action can happen in the states, particularly purple or blue ones, that would eventually impact Congress and the White House.