CQ Voting Studies are an annual analysis of a member's support or opposition to a given position. Interest Group Ratings are based on rankings from groups chosen to represent liberal, conservative, business and labor viewpoints.Voting Participation scores are based on the number of times a member voted "yea" or "nay" on roll call votes (not including quorum calls in the House). CQ Vote Studies Year Presidential Support Party Unity   S* O* S O 1998 76% 24% 89% 10% 1997 83 17 89 11 1996 77 23 91 9 1995 85 15 94 6 S=Support; O=Oppose
Voting Participation Year % 1998 99 1997 100 1996 99 1995 99	Interest Groups Year ADA AFL-CIO CCUS ACU 1998 100% n/a 33% 12 % 1997 100 100 30 12 1996 95 91 19 5 1995 95 100 25 16
Note on Interest Groups: ADA=Americans for Democratic Action; AFL-CIO=American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations; CCUS=Chamber of Commerce of the United States; ACU=American Conservative Union

MICHIGAN 13 : 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.

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