Cynthia McKinney was born in Atlanta, Georgia on March 17, 1955, and currently lives in south DeKalb County. In 1978, she earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California. She was awarded a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and periodically does work to complete her Ph.D. there. Cynthia is the daughter of veteran Georgia State Representative Billy McKinney and Leola McKinney, a nurse of forty years at Grady Hospital in Atlanta.

Denise Majette is a 46-year-old native of Brooklyn, New York. She earned her bachelor's degree in history at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1976 and her juris doctor degree at the Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina in 1979. After law school, she was a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society in Winston-Sale

While doing my research, I came across an article about Denise Majette's cruel actions as a judge. This article listed countless incidents where her rulings were overruled in appeal courts. It talks about how her rulings were uncouth and unfair. It stated that Majette refused to release public transcripts of her actions in court in two separate cases, in one case even falsely denying their existence (McKinney for congress, 2002). This article was found on McKinney's campaign site.

The Southern Democratic primary was watched across the country as a thermometer for race relations between blacks and whites and religious tensions between American Jews and Arabs. It ended in a way few would have predicted a year ago, with McKinney, a five term veteran whose effort was financed largely by Arab-Americans, losing overwhelming to Denise Majette, a political unknown who raised $1.1 million from Jews and conservative whites, including Republicans (Glanton, 2002).

It seemed that McKinney was heavily backed. "McKinney enjoyed support from ministers, as well as endorsements from Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan (Kintisch, 2002)." Jewish lobby groups and crossover REPUBLICAN voters heavily backed Majette. The Jewish groups because of McKinney's support from and to Arab-Americans and Muslim groups backed Majette. A lot of Republicans crossed over to make sure McKinney was not the winner.

Every story approached the issues on either the side of Majette or McKinney. It seems that all of the stories I read seemed to slant the iss

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