CQ Risk Rating: Safe Democrat 
| GENERAL ELECTION: NOVEMBER 7, 2000 |
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| Lynn Rivers (D) | 160,084 | 65% |
| Carl F. Barry (R) | 79,445 | 32% |
| Karin R. Corliss (LIBERT) | 4,578 | 2% |
| Harold H. Dunn (USTAX) | 2,110 | 1% |
| David Arndt (NL) | 1,304 | 1% |
| PRIMARY ELECTION: AUGUST 8, 2000 |
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| | Votes | Percentage | | Democratic |
| Lynn Rivers | 24,469 | 100% |
| | Republican |
| Carl F. Barry | 13,363 | 100% |
Source: Congressional Quarterly. To suggest updates and corrections: politics.feedback@cq.com
Major Industry | Population | Cities | People | Race | Median Household Income | Unusual Features
MICHIGAN 13
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Southeast - Ann Arbor; Westland; Ypsilanti
Michigan's 13th, situated on the flat land west of Detroit, contains a
mix of auto workers, engineers and academics. Split between two counties,
Wayne and Washtenaw, the district as a whole leans somewhat Democratic.
Interstate 94, joining the eastern and western ends of the 13th, has
emerged as an engineering and research corridor where robotics companies,
developing ways to automate auto manufacturing, have helped turn Detroit
assembly line jobs into highly skilled, computerized work.
Blue-collar towns on the eastern edge of the 13th, which hold about
one-third of the district's voters, depend on Detroit's car-making economy.
Like most towns with strong ties to the United Auto Workers union, voters
lean toward Democratic candidates. After flirting with support for GOP
candidates in the 1980s, this area returned to the Democratic fold in the
1990s to support Clinton in both 1992 and '96. But the towns in western
Wayne County, including Canton, Northville and Plymouth, are more affluent
and more Republican than their neighbors to the east.
At the district's far western reaches, voters again become Democratic.
Both Ann Arbor, the district's largest city and home to the U. of Michigan's
academic community, and Ypsilanti, a working-class town southeast of Ann
Arbor, vote reliably Democratic.
Major Industry
Auto manufacturing, higher education, scientific and medical research
Population
580,882 (1990)
Cities
Ann Arbor, 108,758; Westland, 90,798 (1996); Canton (unincorporated), 57,047
(1990)
People
93% urban; 9% age 65+ (ranks 16 of 16 in state; bottom third nationally);
53% married couples, 26% married couples with children; 27% college educated
(ranks second of 16 in state; top third nationally); 62% white collar (ranks
third of 16 in state; top third nationally), 24% blue collar (ranks 15 of 16
in state; middle third nationally) (1990)
Race
85% white, 11% black, 3% Asian; 2% Hispanic origin (1990)
Median Household Income
$36,596 (ranks third of 16 in state; top third nationally) (1990)
Unusual Features
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab; Singer Iggy Pop, native of Ann
Arbor.
Source: Congressional Quarterly (Updated April 1999)
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