{"id":897,"date":"2002-08-21T01:34:20","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T08:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/outbreak-of-reason-in-georgia\/"},"modified":"2002-08-21T01:34:20","modified_gmt":"2002-08-21T08:34:20","slug":"outbreak-of-reason-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/21\/outbreak-of-reason-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreak of Reason in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Georgia primaries couldn&#8217;t have turned out much better, with nutcases Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr going down decisively to more moderate opponents. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodude.com\/weblog\/\">PhotoDude&#8217;s Web Log: Brain Dump &#038; Pixel Pile<\/a> has a great blow-by-blow of early returns in the McKinney-Majette race, for his own personal district:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Denise Majette, a virtually unknown local judge when she declared her candidacy a mere 6 months ago, tonight knocked off a 5 term incumbent in her own party primary, defeating Cynthia McKinney by nearly 20,000 votes, with 59% of those cast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it was 60\/40 for Majette, and the Linder\/Barr race was even more of a landslide, 67\/33. If your faith in the democratic process was harmed by Barbara Lee&#8217;s winning the nomination for her seat in Berkeley, this should restore it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia primaries couldn&#8217;t have turned out much better, with nutcases Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr going down decisively to more moderate opponents. PhotoDude&#8217;s Web Log: Brain Dump &#038; Pixel Pile has a great blow-by-blow of early returns in the McKinney-Majette race, for his own personal district: Denise Majette, a virtually unknown local judge when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/21\/outbreak-of-reason-in-georgia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Outbreak of Reason in Georgia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","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-et","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}