[The Scourge of Yazid]

I could just imagine what the Coz would have to say.

My problem is with how they cobbled together the district back during the '90 U.S. Census.

If they hadn't created a racially partial district in the first place, she never would have been elected to the House of Representatives.

Once she was an incumbent-despite her obvious lack of bearings or any sort of common sense whatsoever-it became an almost insurmountable challenge to dislodge her from her seat.

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.

[Lori675]

I never heard of an election in August. I thought the congressional elections were in November.

[Vigilantcitizen]

It just doesn't make any sense, at least to me.

IMO...Majette was paid to take a dive. Cindy has access to Saudi money, and I'm sure the Saudis wouldn't mind shelling out 10 or 20 big ones to buy Cindi's seat back.

Either that, or the party informed Majette she'd get no help from them if she decided to rerun for her congressional seat. That makes more sense to me than any other possible scenario. There's no way I'd believe Majette thinks she has an honest shot at the senate seat.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"My problem is with how they cobbled together the district back during the '90 U.S. Census.

If they hadn't created a racially partial district in the first place, she never would have been elected to the House of Representatives."

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That is true. That Savannah-to-DeKalb district was a monstrosity, and it was correctly struck down as violating the equal-protection clause because it used race as the primary motivation for its erose boundaries. Had McKinney had to run in the 1996 district in an open-seat race, she might not have made it past the primary.

[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.

[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."