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Jews bought everybody Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-21-ga-candidates_x.htm State Rep. Billy McKinney said his daughter's tough fight was because ''Jews have bought everybody. Jews. J-e-w-s.'' Longtime Georgia political analyst Bill Shipp said crossover votes may have numbered 20,000 to 25,000 in McKinney's race. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-21-ga-candidates_x.htm http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020822/pl_usatoday/4382314 Crossover vote helped tilt Ga. races Thu Aug 22, 7:49 AM ET William M. Welch USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- Two congressional incumbents defeated in primaries this week were hurt by Georgia's open primary system, one that allows voters of one party to cross lines and cast ballots in the other party's nominating election. Crossover voting gave a significant lift to Democrat Denise Majette in unseating controversial Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who lost 58%-42% in Georgia's 4th Congressional District. Crossovers by Democrats may have been a factor as well in Republican Rep. Bob Barr's 64%-36% loss to a fellow incumbent, Rep. John Linder, in the 7th District. At least 23 states allow crossover primary voting, but it is rarely a decisive factor. When it does affect elections, it usually rewards moderates and hurts those outside the mainstream, such as conservative Barr and liberal McKinney. Sen. John McCain sought crossover votes in the 2000 presidential primaries, and got a boost from voters who saw him as more middle-of-the-road than George W. Bush. McKinney's loss was a rejection by voters in both parties of her controversial profile, which included support for Arab causes and a suggestion that Bush knew in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks. An inflammatory remark by her father on an Atlanta TV broadcast Monday may have been the final blow. State Rep. Billy McKinney said his daughter's tough fight was because ''Jews have bought everybody. Jews. J-e-w-s.'' ''What he did was just egregious and sickening to Democratic primary voters,'' said Alan Secrest, Majette's pollster. Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, chairman of the Republican House campaign committee, said crossover voting also was a factor in the defeat of Barr, who had made himself a Democratic target by leading the impeachment of President Clinton ( news - web sites). Davis said he had warned Barr that by choosing to face Linder rather than running for another open seat, ''your primary is going to be like a general election.'' Majette won by nearly 20,000 votes out of 117,670 cast. At the same time, barely 6,000 votes were cast in the district's GOP primary. There was no Democratic primary in the Barr-Linder district. Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, said the small number of GOP ballots, compared with 29,000 cast in a primary six years ago, suggests a large number of Republicans voted in the Democratic primary this time. ''I think it probably was decisive,'' Black said. ''It was very easy for Republicans to cross over this time because there were not any other races that captured their attention.'' Secrest contends Majette could have won without the GOP votes. He said his polls as early as May found McKinney ''nearly at the end of her political rope'' and facing rejection from all types of voters. Longtime Georgia political analyst Bill Shipp said crossover votes may have numbered 20,000 to 25,000 in McKinney's race. In both her loss and Barr's, Shipp said, ''voters sent a message: 'We're tired of these over-the-top congressmen dealing in great international and national interests. How about somebody looking out for our interests?' '' Eighteen states have yet to hold primaries this year, and crossover voting is allowed in at least five of them: Alaska, Hawaii, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin. Ron Rapoport, a political scientist at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., says party leaders might feel threatened by crossovers, but rarely do crossover voters try to sabotage a party by voting for a weak opponent. ''What crossover voting indicates is the appeal your candidate has to partisans of the other party,'' he said.

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