Lessons from Rep. Cynthia McKinney's defeat [Michael Barone]

US News and World Report ^ | August 30, 2002 | Michael Barone

[FreedomPoster]

It sounds like you've done a deeper analysis than me. I was just taking the number of Majette voters in the northern part of the district, and discounting it for a few Democrats, because the number of 'Pubbie crossovers up here was HUGE. Then picking a number out of the air for 'Pubbie crossovers in the rest of the county. My upper end and your number are pretty close, for what are really both non-scientific guesstimates.

BTW, the Majette:McKinney totals were 12,039:601 (20:1!!!) in the 16 Dunwoody / North DeKalb precincts. There were only 1872 votes cast in the 'Pubbie primary for State Rep (Millar vs. Davis) in those same precincts. This area is heavily Republican in a national election (heck, we used to be in Newt's old GA 6th before '92), so you can see the crossovers were substantial up here.

[rdb3]

Didn't take long for ol' mindprism.com to get nuked, I see.

[rdb3]

C'mon, Digger! Who do you blame?

[aculeus]

Denise Majette was called a "Tomette" and the like by the McKinney forces. This didn't prevent her from winning 1 of 3 black votes against an incumbent. Evidently many black voters believed there were other issues more important than who is the most "black."

They raised "racial authenticity" as an issue? : )

[Howlin]

Or why 8 of the alleged hijackers are alive

Source that statement or STOP posting this crap.

And I do mean a legitimate source, not Dr.Liberty.

[dansangel]

"But how many crossovers were there?"

Included in the approximately 15,000 you reported, two that I know of from Gwinnette - .45MAN and myself!

I still can't believe that we did it....and that it worked! Thanks to Freedom Poster and Guillermo for getting the word out!

[backhoe]

Jihad Cindy? McKinney won't go quietly... indeed, she may not go away at all...

[WarSlut]

Buh bye, pyscho.

[Chu Gary]

I'd suggest you elucidate Digger.

[fortheDeclaration]

Since when has any Democrat gone 'quietly'.

They are like Vampires, you have to put the stake right through the heart, in other words, they have to run out of races to run in or their own Party has to repudiate them as losers.

[backhoe]

They are like Vampires

Good point. Much as I personally wish Cindy would sit down & shut up, her continued presence does a wonderous amount of damage to the Democrats... so it's not all bad...

[BlackRazor]

...the Democratic party, in Georgia and elsewhere, has figured out that it is in its interest not to maximize the number of black majority districts but to spread black voters around to several white majority districts where they can (Democrats hope) tilt the balance to the Democrats.

This is disappointing that the Dems have finally realized this. I've seen analysis of the 1990 redistricting process suggesting that the creation of heavily-concentrated black districts in that cycle directly contributed to at least 16 GOP House seat pick-ups by 1994 (all in the South).

[fortheDeclaration]

They are like Vampires Good point. Much as I personally wish Cindy would sit down & shut up, her continued presence does a wonderous amount of damage to the Democrats... so it's not all bad...

Yes, they have some sought of 'Messiah' complex.

It will not be until the Party itself distances themselves from her that she will finally 'get it'

[thucydides]

What Barone lightly treads over is the appalling fact that more than two-thirds of blacks in the district voted for McKinney. However, the point that redistricters are trying to spread their democrat voters so as to produce less secure, but more numerous democrat seats is interesting. This will tend to dampen McKinney style extremism. It may of course, backfire. Due to the natural extremism of the party, based on its need to inflame its ignorant constituencies as much as possible with racial paranoia so as to get 95% votes from minorities in the cities in order to offset other districts, anything less than overwhelmingly democrat districts risk turnovers.