{"id":4015,"date":"2006-08-09T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/08\/09\/mckinney-liebermaned-in-georgia\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T19:22:48","slug":"mckinney-liebermaned-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/09\/mckinney-liebermaned-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinney Lieberman’ed in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tLest the democratic wing of the Democratic Party gets too excited about cable guy Ned Lamont’s victory in Connecticut yesterday, let’s not forget the original anti-war populist:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nDECATUR, Ga. — Cynthia McKinney, the fiery Georgia congresswoman known for her conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks and the scuffle she had earlier this year with a U.S. Capitol police officer, lost a runoff election Tuesday for her district’s Democratic nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Could it be that voters are simply tired of the status quo? Granted, McKinney has certain special features, but voters sent her to Washington several times despite them. Perhaps we’ve simply got higher standards now.<\/p>\n

It wouldn’t surprise me to see more incumbent-crushing in November, on both sides. You read it here.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lest the democratic wing of the Democratic Party gets too excited about cable guy Ned Lamont’s victory in Connecticut yesterday, let’s not forget the original anti-war populist: DECATUR, Ga. — Cynthia McKinney, the fiery Georgia congresswoman known for her conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks and the scuffle she had earlier this year with … Continue reading “McKinney Lieberman’ed in Georgia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-12L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}