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Representative Cynthia McKinney Watch: New Poll Has Hank Johnson Leading by 15 Points

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Georgia 4th Congressional District Democratic candidate Rep. Cynthia McKinney, right, speaks to Hank Johnson, during a runoff debate on the set of Georgia Public Television, Monday, July 31, 2006, in Atlanta.The candidates assembled for a live debate in front of an audience at the GPTV studios as part of the Atlanta Press Club 2006 debate series.

WXIA: Poll: Johnson Leads McKinney by 15

A new InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll for the Democratic primary runoff in Georgia’s 4th Congressional district shows challenger Hank Johnson maintaining his lead over incumbent U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney by a full 15 percentage points as the runoff election looms closer.

McKinney’s totals moved up from the last poll late last week, but she still sat well behind former DeKalb County Commissioner Johnson.

Poll results:

Hank Johnson – 49 percent
Cynthia McKinney – 34 percent
Undecided – 17 percent.

Voters in Gerogia’s 4th Congressional District appear to be done with Cynthia McKinney and she is becoming desperate in her attempt to hold office:

Editor & Publisher: Congresswoman Sues ‘Atlanta Journal-Constitution’ for Libel

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney filed charges against the newspaper’s editor Cynthia Tucker and publisher John Mellott for an editorial column that ran in the Sunday July 30 paper about McKinney’s alleged altercation with police, according to All Headline News.

McKinney’s attorney, J.M. Raffauf, said the column describes McKinney whacking a police officer with her cell phone, a charge McKinney denies.

The suit says that other facts were misstated including a reported suggestion by McKinney that President Bush had known about the September 11 terror attacks in advance, and had allowed the plot to unfold so that he and his friends could profit from the resulting wars.

The suits says that McKinney wants an “immediate retraction in writing these false and libelous statements” and “demands that your retraction and correction be accompanied by an editorial in which you specifically repudiate your libelous statements.”

***UPDATE***

Now Editor & Publisher is reporting: UPDATE: ‘Atlanta Journal-Constitution’ Not Sued by Congresswoman

The column in question by Cynthia Tucker of AJC is here.

Obviously, the non-lawsuit but request for retraction is an attempt to “blame” the Atlanta newspaper for her conduct and extreme views. And McKinney is probably mad that the Atlanta Journal-Constituion endorsed Hank Johnson. The editorial is here.

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McKinney has NO hope of winning this libel non-lawsuit Flap. But, this may be her last chance to elicit enough pathos to win sympathy from the voters prior to next Tuesday’s run-off election.

An election that Flap handicaps McKinney will LOSE.

Stay tuned……

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