Or at least has been decisively rejected by the voters of her district for the second time in the last three elections.

A lawyer and former DeKalb County commissioner unseated Cynthia McKinney, the controversial incumbent congresswoman, on Tuesday night in a runoff election for the Democratic nomination in GeorgiaÂ’s Fourth Congressional District.

The winner, Henry C. Johnson Jr., must still defeat the Republican candidate, Catherine Davis, in November. But as the Democratic nominee in what has historically been considered a safely Democratic seat, he is presumed to already be on his way to Washington. Mr. Johnson led Ms. McKinney by 17 percentage points, winning 58 percent of the vote.

Mr. Johnson, 51, a trial lawyer in Decatur, Ga., said watching the returns “was kind of like waiting for a jury to come back.”

“I was glad to finally get to the end of the campaign,” he said.

At her campaign headquarters, Ms. McKinney began her concession speech by singing along to the song “Dear Mr. President” by the pop artist Pink. “I wanted you to hear this song, which says so much about why this election in Georgia was so important,” she said.

“Not only do we want our country back, we want our party back,” she said in a speech that criticized President Bush, the news media and electronic voting machines. She concluded, “I wish the new representative of the Fourth Congressional District well.”

This woman is whacked and on crack. It is nice that the voters of her district have had the sense to cry out "Enough!"

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