Official results in for the U.S. House District 4 race in Georgia: the estimable Cynthia McKinney got 28,507 votes; challenger Hank Johnson got 27,049; and John Coyne got 5,199. Thus McKinney with 46.92% faces Johnson with 44.52% in a run-off. This was the Democratic primary in a heavily Democratic district, where the winner of the Democratic primary is generally considered the winner in fall’s election for Congress.

Half of Coyne’s votes would have given McKinney 31,106 and Johnson 29,648, avoiding a run-off. A solid majority of those votes would have put one of the others over 50%, ...   more »