Cynthia McKinney (D) is headed back to Congress

Roll Call

[Mr. D]

Cynthia McKinney (D) is headed back to Congress after the controversial five-term ex-lawmaker won a plurality in Georgia's 4th district primary Tuesday, avoiding what had been widely considered an all but inevitable runoff.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"That was Sheila Jackson Lee, I think."

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Yup, it was Sheila the Yale graduate.

[Blessed]

>Depends on where the high voter turnout was. In my part of GA, turnout was less than 30%. Couldn't have benefited Cain. <

Did not matter what part of state.Isakson won all but a couple of counties that went for Collins and maybe 1 that went for Cain.The higher the turnout the less influence "true believers have". Isakson had a 80% name recognition to less than 50% for Cain.To high a hill to climb this time.A hurricane would have helped Cain.

[zbigreddogz]

She might occasionally help Republicans, but having to engage in the kind of lunacy and racism she spews is bad for the country, and I'll chose country before party.

[King Prout]

think about it a second: where in the constitution, any constitution, does it say "the people must vote by party block, instead of the candidates of their choice"?

Being forced to pick either Republican (to vote Cain) or Democrat (for local level elected servants) cost Cain a HELL of a lot of votes in Brooks County.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Someone should commission a poll in the 4th CD pitting McKinney against Republican sacrificial lamb Catherine Davis, and then ask people about McKinney vs. Ray Davis, McKinney vs. Al Bartell, and (just for the heck of it) McKinney vs. Herman Cain. If McKinney's support is under 50% against, say, Bartell, it may be worth it to pull a Torricelli and have Catherine Davis step down in favor of Bartell.

[GeorgiaDawg]

Still to my point...if we have 30% turnout in November, Bush is in trouble. The democrat base is angry and we better be just as energized.

[RinaseaofDs]

Don't sweat it.

You could live in WA state. We've contributed McDermott and Murray.

[zbigreddogz]

I don't get it either.

I'm guessing she got serious death threats from McKinny's dad, or she somehow has the inside scoop on how the dems are gonna stuff the ballot box with upwards of a million votes, because she's gonna need every one of them to have a snoballs chance in hell of actually winning.

I'm usually not a conspiracy theorist, but I really don't get why else she would run. I guess she could just be completely and totally dellusional, or perhaps the Dems came to her and offered her some cushy job when she loses and just wanted an even halfway credible candidate to avoid looking stupid (I don't see how this is avoided, they still look stupid, but maybe a little less stupid?).

Anyhow, I donno. I wish she would have kept her house seat. Considering she's from such a safe, gerrymandered district, her voting record is actually not as horrible as, say, Jim McDermott or Dennis Kucinich.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"think about it a second: where in the constitution, any constitution, does it say "the people must vote by party block, instead of the candidates of their choice"?"

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Nowhere. But the Republican and Democrat parties in GA prefer that their own party members select their nominees, and having them have to choose either an R or a D ballot helps to weed out those who want to sabotage the opposing party's primaries. Let's assume that only one RAT candidate was running for the Senate---under the system you propose, hundreds of thousands of Democrats could choose a Republican ballot for Senator and cast their vote for the candidate they believe would be the weakest in the general election (in fact, they could probably nominate a RAT as the GOP nominee!).

The bottom line is, I don't want Democrats deciding who our nominees should be. If a conservative Democrat wants to vote in our primaries, then he should commit himself to the GOP by not taking a Democrat ballot.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Majette's 2003 ACU rating was a 20, which is just 4 points below that of supposedly "moderate" Democrat Jim Marshall (who sits in a district carried by Bush, and who hopefully will be unseated by Calder Clay). I would have loved for Majette to stay in the House, since our chances of winning the district even against a whacko like McKinney are extremely low.

[Blessed]

>think about it a second: where in the constitution, any constitution, does it say "the people must vote by party block, instead of the candidates of their choice"?<

The same part of the Constitution that prescribes primaries.Primarries are the way groups of people choose to NOMINATE their candidate for the general election that is prescibed in the Constitution.I do not care to have John Kerry Democrats picking my nominee for governor or senator.If you are not happy with your choices run a slate of Republicans for local office.My county votes 85% Gop and has no elected democrats.You can always put somone on the ballot with a petition.

[Blessed]

Why don't you Cainiacs get up a petition to run Cain as an independent against Mckinney.I could not sign but I would donate campaign funds.

[dansangel]

No Cain or Collins, McKinney is probably going to get elected once again...ugh.

It has nothing to do with pessimism - it's more of a fact. Unless the Republicans come out in force on election day, McNinney is a shoo-in. Even at that, she's the favorite. There's no hiding the fact that Republicans are disproportionately underrepresented in District 4.

We are in P'Tree Corners (Gwinnett) which was gerrymandered into the mostly-Dekalb district. I can't for the life of me figure that one out.

[dansangel]

That is why I'm so confounded by Majette's decision to run for the open, Zell Miller seat in the U.S. Senate. It just doesn't make any sense, at least to me.

It's called "Huge Ego Syndrome."

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

According to the local news here at the top of their newscast as the polls closed, a precinct in South DeKalb was kept open by judicial fiat for an extra hour because of an alleged malfunction with their voting equipment.

[Feiny]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

I despise that woman & her father.

[Feiny]

From Neal Boortz:

GET READY FOR THE RETURN OF CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

The Islamic world .. and this includes those who don't exactly wish us well .. is celebrating today. Radical Islamic causes have now achieved a meaningful election victory in the United States. It looks almost certain that Cynthia McKinney will be returning to the United States Congress representing Georgia's 4th District. Yesterday McKinney took more than 50% of the votes in a Democratic primary election. Her Republican challenger in the November election stands little chance of an upset.

You do remember Cynthia, don't you? She is the one who said that Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened. When a Saudi prince's offer of $10 million for the victims of 9/11 was turned down because of the Saudi's anti-American remarks, it was Cynthia who said "Hey, give the money to me!" It was Cynthia McKinney who, during her previous stint in Congress, spent far more time representing the interests of various African despots before the federal government than she did her own constituents.

Cynthia's last campaign received most of its funding from Arab and Islamic interests. Last night one of the first messages of congratulations came from Abed Hammoud of the Arab-American Political Action Committee. The Islamic Jihadists are about to celebrate the return of their friend.

In the New York Post Erick Stakelbeck wrote "McKinney has long associated with militant Islamic groups whose members have openly supported terrorism." Daniel Pipes, the director of the Middle East Forum, took a brief look at McKinney's campaign finance disclosures .. here's a partial list of Cynthia's campaign contributors:

Hani Y. Awadallah – president, Arab American Civic Organization, New Jersey.

Jesse Aweida – co-founder, American Task Force on Palestine.

Belal Dalati – a vice president of Arab-American Broadcasting Co. (Orange County Register, February 19, 2002) associated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Hasan Elkhatib –member, board of directors, American Islamic Educational Foundation (MetroWest Jewish News, October 10, 1996)

Yaser Elmenshawy - chairman, Islamic Council of New Jersey.

Rafeeq Jaber – president, Islamic Association for Palestine, a Hamas offshoot.

Oussama Jammal – president, Bridgeview Mosque.

Samer Khalaf – chairman, American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee's Political Outreach Committee in New Jersey.

Faroque Khan – president, Islamic Center of Long Island, also connected to the American Muslim Alliance and Islamic Society of North America.

Mahmoud A Nimer - member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa (an Islamic school established by Sami al-Arian; al-Arian's indictment indicates the school was used as a base of support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad).

Ayman Osman - member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa; employer of Hatem Fariz, arrested on terrorism charges and charged with being a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Talat Othman - former chairman of the Islamic Free Market Institute; secretary/treasurer of the American Task Force on Palestine.

Khalid Qazi – former president, American Muslim Council of western New York State.

Hareth Raddawi - member, board of directors, American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, Chicago.

Allam Reheem - former member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa.

Talal Sunbulli – former chairman, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.

James Zogby – president, Arab American Institute.

Cynthia McKinney is a functionally incompetent far-left nutcase ... and come next January she'll be back in Washington. Now Corinne Brown, Sheila Jackson-Lee and Maxine Waters will have some good company. Residents of Georgia's 4th Congressional District have every cause to be both ashamed and embarrassed.

[socal_parrot]

[dansangel]

Residents of Georgia's 4th Congressional District have every cause to be both ashamed and embarrassed.

Ain't that the truth. I despise being associated with that Islamofascist pig.

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[The Scourge of Yazid]

I prefer the "massive ego trip" theory myself.

I don't see why the Democratic machine-which had a major hand in ousting McKinney in the first place-would want to welcome this nutter back into the fold.

Then again, this could be a ploy to divert NRSC funds to a race that would otherwise have been a cakewalk for the GOP.

To be honest, even the conservatives tactics in this race are kind of befuddling. I mean, considering Isackson's lack of popularity among primary voters statewide, you figured that the right wing could have unified behind one, well known, well funded candidate.

The whole thing is a bit baffling to me. Then again, I don't live in Georgia, so I'm not privy to the inside baseball that goes on in the GA Republican Party.