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She’s angry and not very bright. As are most of the voters in her old district. Considering the moronic racist Hank Johnson (Guam tipping over) replaced her and is an improvement, I actually think she has a reasonable chance of getting the seat back. She's a white hating, industry hating, government loving, socialist who feels that every black is entitled to be supported by whites. This attitude is very prevalent in her former district which was specially gerrymandered to ensure that the representative from there would always be black

This is so true, and I know because I live in the 4th here in GA. They grabbed the north section of DeKalb County where I live back when the Democrats controlled the state legislature, and the GOP hasn't been able to redraw the district thanks to the racists who keep bringing up the archaic Voting Rights Act here. Luckily the larger areas here are starting to incorporate as cities, and within the next 4 years they will have the chance to finally separate north DeKalb from the 4th. The news that McKinney is running on the Green Party ticket is a good thing, we've been hoping for it actually. The racists idiots that make up the southern half of this county still like her, and it could possibly split the vote enough to allow the GOP to take the 4th. It's a long shot, but it's possible. 12 years ago a black GOP female candidate came within 6 points of McKinney. I will praise the day when the McKinneys and Hank Johnson's of the world aren't representing my district.

North DeKalb is in the GA 6th Congressional District, and has been again for some time. There was only about a 4 year period that it was not.

With the 2010 census redistricting, even more is in the 6th this year than two years ago. Thank Fran Millar, among others, for that.

“12 years ago a black GOP female candidate came within 6 points of McKinney”

I thought the Republican who came close to knocking off McKinney around 2000 or so was a white, Jewish male, not a black female.

But in 2012 the GOP has an excellent black, female conservative Republican running in GA-04: Catherine Davis. http://www.catherinedavis4congress.com/ It would take a miracle for her to win the general election, especially with Obama on the ballot increasing black turnout in that district (Davis would need each of Hank Johnson and Cindy McKinney to get between 30%-33% and get 34% herself, in a district that, as redrawn, gave McCain less than 20% IIRC), but at least our odds of winning are not 0% anymore.