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Diverse new 1st District a political battleground
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Mar 10, 2012 01:29am |
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| News Date | Sunday, March 4, 2012 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Monroe voters like their members of Congress to be Republican. But for a dozen years, they've gone without.
That streak could end this fall.
As a result of redistricting, Monroe finds itself in a physically reshaped and politically reoriented 1st Congressional District with an open seat up for grabs in the November election.
Those responsible for the once-a-decade redrawing of boundaries converted the 1st District from an urban safe haven for a liberal Democrat to a mix of farmland and suburbia from the Canadian border to Medina, where partisans are equally divided -- and where Republicans can win.
"It may easily be the most evenly divided congressional district in the United States of America," Republican commissioner Slade Gorton at the unveiling of the borders in December. "Certainly it's that in the state of Washington." |
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