Posted on 04/23/2012 7:57:57 AM PDT by Prov1322
Shame on you! Buckwheat doesn’t deserve that.
Good deal, for some reason I thought you were since they carved out a good section of affluent neighborhoods. Price is good, I’d like to see he take more of a leadership role in D.C. I’m in GA9 with Tom Graves which is a bit a of a disappointment, then again he’s only been there since the ’10 elections.
I don’t know how they’ve redrawn it, but the old Fourth was mostly Holder’s People. It contained a lot of heavily black and economically depressed areas in Dekalb County, east of Atlanta proper.
To show you the esteeem in which Crazy Cindy was held, the stretch of Memorial Drive that crossed over I-285 in Dekalb was named the Cynthia McKinney Parkway. It ran right alongside the Dekalb County jail, ironically enough. After her run-in with the Capitol police and her loss in 2006, the “Cynthia McKinney Parkway” signs at the Memorial Drive exit on I-285 were taken down after the Georgia legislature revoked the naming.
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I just realized that in all GA elections (except for the presidential race) there is a runoff in early December if no candidate gets above 50% (which you may recall occurred in 2008 in the Senate race between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin). So even if Johnson and McKinney split the Dem vote evenly and the GOP nominee (which won’t be Catherine Davis, since she’s not running) finished first with 34%, there would be a run-off between the top two finishers. Sure, turnout in the runoff would be a lot lower, and the electorate would be a bit less Democrat, but there is no way that a Republican (much less a white Republican) will beat either Johnson or McKinney one-on-one in that district.
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