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- GRAPEVINE, Page 27Beep if You Want Him as Veep
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- Although he wasn't running for anything, Virginia Governor
- Douglas Wilder sees himself as one of the big winners of the
- November elections. Exit polls showed that 22% of black voters
- supported Republican candidates for the House, up from 14% in
- 1986 and 11% in 1982. Wilder calls these figures "alarming" and
- speculates that some blacks shared antitax sentiments with many
- middle-class whites. As both a black Democrat and a fiscal
- conservative, Wilder believes he is well positioned to lure the
- defecting voters back. That may explain why his political
- adviser, Paul Goldman, has registered a new PAC with the Federal
- Election Commission that can easily evolve into a fund-raising
- vehicle for a Wilder presidential campaign. While that
- nomination strikes political insiders as most unlikely,
- speculation about a Veep candidacy is turning serious.
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