Cynthia McKinney Behind in the Polls
The verdict is in, Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney is in deep trouble. The incumbent failed to win the Democratic primary by a majority and must win in the run-off election to keep her seat. There is news that McKinney is falling behind in the polls. Her problem is that she is one of those people who just does not know when to SHUT UP. McKinney has accused President Bush of having fore-knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. She has also hit a Capitol Hill Police officer in the chest with her cell phone when she walked around metal detectors at the Capitol Building without her Representative pin. This Georgia Democrat is no Georgia peach having stirred up harsh feeling everywhere she has gone. Its not that McKinney is particularly partisan, its that she is racist. Slate has more of the Congresswoman’s more outlandish comments, but here are a few.
During a nasty 1996 congressional campaign with racial tension on both sides, she called supporters of her Republican opponent “holdovers from the Civil War days” and “a ragtag group of neo-Confederates.” Never mind that her opponent was Jewish. And during the 2000 presidential campaign, she wrote that “Gore’s Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I’ve never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.” Never mind that Gore’s campaign manager was black. (McKinney is not a particularly partisan finger-pointer—there are enough delusions for both sides.)
And now it seems some of Representative Cynthia McKinney’s more outlandish comments and actions are catching up with her having fallen behind in the polls.
The poll shows [Hank] 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 trouble? Yes,” he said.
Too bad! McKinney is one racist Representative who needs the sting of a primary defeat. Will it get her attention—no, but I will expect we will hear plenty of news how white (read racist) Republicans crossed party lines to vote against her. She will not even consider that her bizarre actions may have contributed to her defeat which shows that not only is she a racist, she is a delusional racist. My support goes to Hank Johnson.
Hat tip: Hedgehog Report
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