Cynthia McKinney
Before running for president in 2008 on the ticket of the Green Party, McKinney represented a suburban district of Atlanta, Georgia, as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms. In 2008 when the liberal environmentalist Green Party nominated the former Congresswoman as its presidential candidate, it admitted that McKinney was a “long shot” for the White House, however, it believed that every vote she gets would help the party. “The United States needs an alternative party,” Green Party spokeswoman Scott McLarty said in 2008. “The narrow two-party system we have right now has not served us very well.”
