Cynthia McKinney: The Formula For Winning, Obama's Lead In Mass. Eroding, Poll Finally Includes McKinney

Cynthia McKinney's Formula For Winning In November

By Timothy Gatto

05 August, 2008
Countercurrents.org

I’m sure that everyone has heard the same argument put forward by the Democrats at least a hundred times or more; “A vote for a third-party candidate does nothing but insure a McCain win” (or a reasonable facsimile thereof). If I hear this ridiculous argument one more time I will probably need stitches in my tongue from biting it.

First of all, the premise behind the argument is irrational. The worst thing about advancing this kind of black/white, either/or argument is that the argument becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. When people advance the idea that only a Democrat or a Republican can win a Presidential election, it helps to reinforce that idea in people’s minds. The more this argument is echoed throughout America, the more people believe it. There are a number of reasons why the next president doesn’t have to belong to the duopoly that has taken this nation to the brink of disaster.

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Obama's Lead Erodes In Massachussetts

(Media-Newswire.com) - BOSTON – Democrat Barack Obama ( 47 percent ) leads Republican John McCain ( 38 percent ) by 9 percent among Massachusetts voters, according to a poll released today by 7NEWS/Suffolk University. Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney and Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr each polled 1 percent, while 13 percent of voters surveyed were undecided.


The poll sharply contrasts with a June 7NEWS/Suffolk University poll, which showed Obama with a 23-point lead, 53 percent to 30 percent.


"Barack Obama’s campaign has hit a soft patch this summer," said David Paleologos, director of the Political Research Center at Suffolk University in Boston. "With November just three months off, it still appears an Obama outcome in Massachusetts is not in question, but the margin certainly is."

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At Last A Poll That Includes Cynthia McKinney

by Jonathan Nack
Tuesday Aug 5th, 2008 12:14 PM

First presidential poll to include both McKinney and Nader


Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party's candidate for president, is currently polling at 1 percent, according to a national poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN, and reported on today by Angus Reid Global Monitor. This is the first poll reported on by Angus Reid, a poll tracking organization, to include McKinney.


The poll found that 6 percent would vote for Ralph Nader (Independent/Peace and Freedom Party (in California only)), and 3 percent would vote for former Congressman Bob Barr (Libertarian Party). http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/31436/seven_point_lead_for_obama_in_us_race


The poll found Senator Barack Obama (Democrat) has a 4 point lead over Senator John McCain (Republican) - 46 percent to 41 percent.


In previous elections, Nader has polled considerably higher than his vote total on election day. Whether that holds true this year, and if it holds true for McKinney and Barr, remains to be seen. McKinney's vote total could benefit from her being the only woman on the ballot in most states.

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The McKinney Factor: Obama's Nightmare, Is Losing Because Of Cynthia McKinney - Black Faces In High Places

The McKinney Factor

"Even without the dirty tactics, an Obama scandal, a damning revelation, a gaffe, or more flips, reversals, and shifts by him to the right could sour more left side Democrats and Independents on him.


But this doesn't mean that McKinney can't toss a curve at Obama. She's got energy, charisma, has name recognition and is on the ballot in thirty six states, a handful of them are crucial swing states that Obama and McCain will wage war to win.


The tantalizing possibility that McKinney might pull two to three percent of the vote nationally is more than a wild stretch. In a close to the wire contest between Obama and McCain this could be just enough to cause the Obama camp jitters as Nader did with Democrats in 2000."


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Cynthia McKinney: Obama’s Worst Nightmare

Barack Obama is no longer the most historic candidate in this year’s presidential election. When the Green Party nominated Cynthia McKinney, a former Congresswoman who happens to be both African-American AND a woman, as their presidential candidate, the historicality of Obama’s campaign was thrown into question in the eyes of the dozens of Americans who were aware that the Green Party had nominated a candidate.


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"Black Faces In High Places" -

Remembering Cynthia McKinney's
Outgoing Impeachment Papers
On Bush, Cheney and Condi Rice

“Black voters have never been repelled by Cynthia McKinney’s brand of politics.”

Perhaps most emblematic of her consistent, principled political behavior, was McKinney’s inclusion of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as deserving of impeachment, along with her bosses, Bush and Cheney. House Resolution1106 reads :

“Condoleezza Rice, in violation of her constitutional duty to share and provide accurate and truthful intelligence information with the Congress, as former National Security Adviser to the President, did play a leading role in deceiving Congress and the American public by repeating and propagating false statements concerning Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction program…. Whereby Condoleezza Rice…did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of America.”

Less than the “high crimes” charged against Bush and Cheney, but sufficient.

Condoleezza Rice, for no good reason, is far less despised among African Americans than Bush and Cheney. But principle requires that Rice should also face congressional indictment. How many members of the Congressional Black Caucus would buck the historical Black current that celebrates “Black faces in high places,” no matter what their crimes? One, that we can be sure of: Cynthia McKinney.

In their eternal quest to erase independent Black political expression, corporate media, corporate Democrats and corporate mercenaries of all varieties seek to portray legitimate African American activist/politicians as “crazed,” “overly emotional,” and “out of step with the Black mainstream.” In reality, these hostile forces attempt to dry up the stream of Black militancy by separating African Americans from their own authentic voices.

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Condoleeza Rice $5,000 Citizens Arrest Bounty Recalled

NZ students recall Rice's arrest bounty

July 25, 2008 - 4:55PM

Auckland University Students' Association (AUSA) has retracted its $NZ5000 ($A3,881) reward for any student who makes a citizen's arrest of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

AUSA president David Do said it was withdrawing the reward in the interests of safety, but the association would still support any student who sought to arrest Dr Rice.

"None of the multiple justifications for her arrest have changed," he said.

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Condoleezza Rice: World power? I'd rather go shopping

She may be one of the most powerful women in the world, holding court with world leaders and standing centre stage on the international arena, but at heart Condoleezza Rice is just like every other woman – all she wants to do is shop....


Ms Rice, who lives just five minutes from a giant shopping mall in Stanford, California, recalled fondly show he and her mother "hit the stores" every Sunday morning after church when she was a child.

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Rice unconcerned by freelance campaign diplomacy

By MATTHEW LEE – 7 hours ago

PERTH, Australia (AP) — If Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is worried that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is complicating the Bush administration's foreign policy with freelance campaign diplomacy, she isn't showing it.

In her first public comments about Obama's overseas jaunt during which he has contrasted his international approach to that of President Bush in meetings with foreign officials, Rice said the trip was part of the election cycle and would not affect the administration.

"Everybody knows that we are in a presidential campaign, so this a part of America's democratic process," Rice told reporters aboard her plane as she flew from an Asian security conference in Singapore to Australia.

"Sen. Obama is a senator, let's remember. He sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and he is a candidate for president. He is all of those things," she said. "But he has said, and we continue to act on the basis, as do our foreign partners, that this government remains in power until January 2009."

Rice last week reminded U.S. Embassy staff around the world that they should provide only minimal assistance to candidates on campaign trips abroad, but she noted that both Obama and Republican hopeful John McCain had pledged not to run a shadow foreign policy on the stump.

They "have made very clear that there is one president of the United States at a time and that they respect that," she said.

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Still time for Mideast peace deal under Bush: Rice

3 hours ago

PERTH, Australia (AFP) — There is still time for Israel and the Palestinians to reach a peace agreement before US President George W. Bush leaves office, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.

"There's still time for them to, in accordance with Annapolis, reach agreement by the end of the year and we'll keep working towards that goal," Rice told a news conference in the West Australian capital Perth.

At talks in Annapolis outside Washington last November, Israel and the Palestinians revived negotiations aiming at concluding a comprehensive peace agreement by the end of 2008.

"The Israelis and the Palestinians have their first serious peace process in seven years and they are discussing very sensitive and difficult issues," Rice said.

Israels' Unsettling Nerves With Barack

Obama Open To Divided Jerusalem
Assures Palestinians his declaration to Jewish group was 'misunderstanding'

Posted: July 23, 2008
3:58 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Sen. Barack Obama speaking to reporters in Sderot, Israel, a town near the Gaza border targeted by Palestinian rockets (Image from Haaretz TV)

RAMALLAH, West Bank – In a meeting here today, Sen. Barack Obama assured the Palestinians he supports a "negotiated settlement" that may grant the Palestinian Authority control over sections of Jerusalem, a senior PA official who took part in the meeting told WND.

"He assured us there was a misunderstanding when he said in [June] he supports the Israelis' rights to hold on to Jerusalem. He told us he corrected this right away and that he supports a negotiated settlement that will give the Palestinians territory," said the PA official.

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CYNTHIA MCKINNEY IS GREEN PARTY NOMINEE: Former Democratic Congresswoman chooses hip hop activist as running mate.

Israel & American Jews Disenchanted Suspicions With Barack Obama - The Wild Cards Continue

Democrat Barack Obama viewed with suspicion in Israel

Barack Obama pledged yesterday to work for peace between Israel and the Palestinians from his first day in office, hours before arriving in the region where he faces a sceptical audience on both sides of the conflict.

The Democratic presidential candidate, who is struggling to win over Jewish voters in America and is viewed with suspicion in Israel, holds meetings in Jerusalem and the West Bank today during the thorniest leg of his international tour. It will be a far cry from the rapturous public reception that he is likely to receive in Berlin tomorrow.

Disenchantment With Barack Obama Sparks Renewed Grass Roots Vote For Minority Middle Class and Black Community

McKinney Joins The (Third) Party As Barr, Nader Fight On

If history is any indication, McKinney could bring fireworks to the campaign: Political junkies will recall her scuffle with a Capitol Police Officer, her suggestion that Mr. Bush might have been involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, and her quixotic efforts to impeach the president.


McKinney favors pulling troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, creating a Department of Peace, and reparations for slavery, among other measures. Her running mate is Rosa Clemente, who is described as a "hip-hop artist, journalist and activist."


As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, McKinney seems to be targeting far-left voters disenchanted with Barack Obama.

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Cynthia McKinney speaks on ‘free trade’ in Mexico

Published Jul 20, 2008 8:38 PM

The following excerpts are from a recent talk made by Cynthia McKinney, Green Party presidential candidate in the United States. The statement was sent out on June 27th by the International Liaison Committee of Workers & Peoples (ILC) based in San Francisco. Go to www.organicconsumers.org to read the statement in its entirety.

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McKinney Press Conference

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

While she was in New York City recently, Cynthia McKinney held a press conference. In a comment here, Sherman Young suggested putting the video here, and that’s a wonderful idea. The video is produced and was posted by Craig Seeman This is but one of several videos. The rest can be seen by clicking on the on the “Read more” link or the article headline. Enjoy!

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Green Party Launch New York Ballot Drive

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Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney spoke in New York to launch a ballot drive

By Jonathan Shannon

Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney spoke in New York to launch the drive to get the Green Party on the ballot, July 18. The Green Party needs 30,000 signatures by August 19.

Keywords: Analysis, Manhattan, Government, Elections,

McKinney addressed over thirty supporters at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network and attacked the failure of the Democratic Party's Congressional majority. McKinney served six terms as a Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia before being, in her own words, "unceremoniously dumped" in 2006.


Describing why she choose to run for the Green Party McKinney said: "It's certainly not a journey that I expected or planned, but it has become an imperative journey." McKinney went on to say that in 2006 the American people voted Democrat for peace but got war. "What the American people thought they were getting was leadership in opposition to the policies of the Bush administration, but that's not what they got at all ... the U.S. voter got betrayed", McKinney said. "The Democratic leadership [became] complicit with the Republican leadership in war crimes, in crimes against humanity, in torture, in crimes against the peace" she said.


Responding to a question about African-Americans McKinney again concentrated on Democratic failings. She quoted the James Taylor Quartet song "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" as encapsulating the "one-sided, dysfunctional relationship" which failed to protect African-American votes in Florida in 2000.

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• CYNTHIA McKINNEY JOINS CINDY FOR CONGRESS!
  Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign, June 22, 2008
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(San Francisco) Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Joins Cindy for Congress as Honorary Co-Chair as No-Strings Occupation and War Funding, Telecom Immunity Bills Are Ushered Through Democrat-controlled Congress

McKinney: "The point was to change Washington, DC, but instead Washington, DC changed Nancy Pelosi"

As a sign of tightening opposition to the string of hope-reversing policies being put forward by Speaker Pelosi, Green Party Presidential and pro-peace candidate Cynthia McKinney agreed to serve as an Honorary Co-Chair of Cindy Sheehan's campaign to oust Nancy Pelosi from Congress. "Nancy Pelosi needs to phone home, because it's clear that she's forgotten the values of the people of California who sent her to Congress. The point was to change Washington, DC, but instead Washington, DC changed Nancy Pelosi," commented McKinney, a former colleague of Pelosi.