{"id":2672,"date":"2006-11-26T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2006-11-26T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T13:25:08","slug":"polar_opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Polar opposite districts top nation in turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2006\/11\/wicongressional.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2006\/11\/wicongressionalt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=535182\">Craig Gilbert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Jim Sensenbrenner&#8217;s (5th) constituents would seem to have little in common with Tammy Baldwin&#8217;s (3rd) constituents.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSensenbrenner&#8217;s heavily suburban U.S. House district is the state&#8217;s most conservative. Baldwin&#8217;s, anchored in Madison, may be its most liberal.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBut voters in both places have come to share a striking distinction: They flock to the polls in greater numbers than voters almost anywhere else in the country.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nMore than 314,000 people voted in the Republican Sensenbrenner&#8217;s 5th District on Nov. 7, and more than 304,000 voted in the Democrat Baldwin&#8217;s 2nd District.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nOnly two congressional districts in the nation produced more votes, and both are at-large, statewide seats (Montana and South Dakota) that have a lot more people than other districts. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Gilbert: Jim Sensenbrenner&#8217;s (5th) constituents would seem to have little in common with Tammy Baldwin&#8217;s (3rd) constituents. Sensenbrenner&#8217;s heavily suburban U.S. House district is the state&#8217;s most conservative. Baldwin&#8217;s, anchored in Madison, may be its most liberal. But voters in both places have come to share a striking distinction: They flock to the polls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,41,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}