Kesher Talk

Number crunching from the McKinney-Majette race: Ben Smith of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers the following points today about the Denise Majette's primary win over Cynthia McKinney in DeKalb County:

• McKinney bested Majette by more than 2 to 1 in DeKalb's predominantly black precincts.



• 87 percent of McKinney's votes came from predominantly black precincts; 26 percent of Majette's came from those precincts.



• Majette carried seven predominantly black precincts and won slightly more votes in the African-American-dominated city of Stone Mountain. Generally, Majette did better in neighborhoods that have seen a lot of resident turnover in recent years.



• Between the 1996 Democratic primary and 2002 primary, McKinney lost 21 central and north DeKalb precincts. She actually picked up 7,617 votes between the two elections, but the increase didn't correspond with the doubling of the turnout in 2002. McKinney's raw vote total grew by 15 percent between the primaries.

posted by Howard @ 8/29/2002 09:57:02 AM