Census swindled New Jersey town

Look it up: Teterboro, New Jersey.

Teterboro is a tiny town known for its general aviation airport. Like Supai, Arizona, Teterboro was grossly undercounted in the 2000 census - the count that governs congressional districting, electoral vote allocation, and funding of public services until 2010.

In fact, the census only counted about one-third of the small community's residents. An entire development - where the mayor and all 4 city council members lived - was missed entirely.

You're probably asking how the census could be so careless as to skip an entire neighborhood. As it turns out - ahem, ahem, ahem - Teterboro just happens to be not very Republican. Like the county that includes Supai, Teterboro is heavily Democratic in federal elections.

So this is yet another case where the census undercounted a Democratic area - costing it funding and legislative clout. Weird how I've found at least 6 or 7 instances like this afflicting Democratic areas, but not a single damn one affecting a Republican area.

Isn't it strange that the Republican states also gained an unusually high number of congressional seats under this census? Now there's a thing that makes you go, "Hmmm."