In other news from Georgia, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is facing an uphill battle in her bid for re-election. She won Tuesday’s Democratic primary but but she failed to secure 50 percent of the vote. She now faces a runoff on August 8 against Hank Johnson, a former county commissioner. McKinney is the first African-American woman from Georgia to be elected from Congress and has been a vocal critic of the Iraq war and the Bush administration’s handling of Hurricane Katrina.