Posted on 07/27/2006 7:42:43 PM PDT by LdSentinal
A new poll by Insider Advantage shows challenger Hank Johnson with a hefty lead over incumbent Cynthia McKinney in the Democratic run-off for the 4th District congressional race.
The poll shows Johnson leading McKinney, 46 to 21 percent, with a third of voters undecided. The survey recorded the responses of 489 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 5 percent.
Run-offs are notorious for low turnout, which often makes telephone surveys unreliable. Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage, said he was unwilling to say that McKinney was headed for certain defeat. "But is she in deep, deep, deep, deep troube? Yes," he said.
Towery said McKinney and Johnson split the African-American vote in the district, which makes up nearly 53 percent of the electorate. But an overwhelming number of white voters surveyed, who make up 42 percent of the 4th District electorate, said they preferred Johnson.
Towery said his poll also detected some interest among Republicans in the race, which would also work against McKinney. In last week's vote, many Republicans stuck to their own races, headlined by the confrontation between Ralph Reed and Casey Cagle in the GOP race for lieutenant governor.
"But for every Republican who voted on July 18, another was out of town at the beach," Towery said. Anyone who did not vote on July 18 is eligible to cast a ballot in the Aug. 8 run-off.
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* Pro-Israel Lobby Targets Georgia Democrat
FOES TAKE AIM AT MCKINNEY IN SURPRISE GEORGIA RACE - TOP
Jennifer Siegel, Forward, 7/28/06
http://forward.com/articles/8183
A surprisingly close race involving one of the pro-Israel community's least favorite lawmakers, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, is poised to become a Middle East proxy fight. McKinney, a left-wing Georgia Democrat with a long history of criticizing Israel, finds herself in an unexpected run-off election after failing to win a majority in her July 18 primary. A defeat in the August 8 runoff would be McKinney's second ouster from Congress in four years and cap a series of major gaffes, including her delayed apology after allegedly hitting a Capitol Hill police officer in March. For months, McKinney, whose district includes parts of the Atlanta suburbs, has been raising out-of-state money from Muslim and Arab Americans. Now, with her stumble in the primary, the legislator's pro-Israel critics are quickly rallying behind her rival, former DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson. Like McKinney, Johnson is an African-American.
"He's just sky-rocketing in popularity," said Rabbi Neil Sandler, the religious leader of Atlanta's Ahavath Achim Synagogue, which hosted Johnson at a pro-Israel rally on July 23. According to Sandler, the audience gave Johnson a "tremendous ovation," the most enthusiastic response of any of the politicians in attendance.
After learning of McKinney's unexpected runoff, several of the country's largest pro-Israel political action committees are rushing to make contributions, with an eye toward arming Johnson with sufficient cash to purchase valuable television and radio advertising. (MORE)
Time for Cynthia to start brainstorming to think up ways she's going to cheat and subvert the election process.
To quote my favorite actor, Special Ed (Crank Yankers) Yeaaaaaaa.
I stand corrected. LOL!
Hey Cynthia, you are so far gone that your own party wants you defeated.
How could she drop to 21% when she got 47% of the vote?
Congress is where she belongs. Where else can a totally worthless fat black racist get paid to do nearly nothing?
Even on McDonalds fry ling she'd actually have to work, congress is the only place for her.
Go Lieberman and McKinney!!
It's all dem JOOS fault.
Nope.
let them be served by somebody more than 1/2 of a brain.
They at least need a democrat with more than 1/8 of a brain.
I heard she sponsored legislation to fine pharmaceutical companies for every bottle of aspirin sold.
She claimed they were racist, because in order to get to the aspirin you had to pick cotton.
WHAT WELCOME NEWS! THANKS!
Would be good to see such a district have some horse sense for a change.
That self-serving arrogant bw*tch sure needs turned out to pasture in the lower 48 . . . the one with lots of rattlers . . . some of her own kind.
LOL! I started to guess that she was going to introduce legislation requiring 15% of all aspirins to be black. ;-)
Reasonable points.
Best pray for God's highest will in that race, clearly.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/0726metfourth.html
McKinney says she will show up for the debate....I wonder if she will
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