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MOVE OVER, JESSE. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, a moderate black leader, may end up stealing some of Jesse Jackson's thunder. His state party chairman, Paul Goldman, is eagerly mapping out 1992 scenarios, and Wilder's travel plans suggest far more than a mere vice-presidential bid. He has visited California twice in the past two weeks, and is poised to announce a foray into New Hampshire this spring. Can Iowa be far behind...
What's more, last month's crack in the highly overvalued Tokyo stock market makes the Japanese seem a little less superhuman. The even wilder overvaluation in Japanese real estate could one day make them look downright mortal, sending shocks around the world. And America's new goals for education by the year 2000, which the nation's Governors unveiled last week, aim in exactly the right competitive direction. The goals may seem fanciful -- one is to make American kids first in the world in math and science -- but are they that much more fanciful than the goal...
...think that Jackson was a monomaniac who refused to accept defeat gracefully. You can also believe that other Black leaders who have recently moved up the political ranks--such as newly-elected Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia--have made Jackson's day of "outsider politics" a thing of the past...
...unexpectedly close Virginia contest, Pollster Harrison Hickman got revealing results by making an offbeat correlation. When white voters were questioned by white pollsters, Hickman found, they favored Republican Marshall Coleman by 16 points. But when whites were telephoned by interviewers with recognizably black intonation, they leaned to Douglas Wilder by 10 points...
...fact that Americans are notoriously unreliable when answering questions related to race was dramatically evident in the Virginia and New York City elections. Although several surveys in the final fortnight gave Wilder and David Dinkins comfortable leads (as high as 15 points for Wilder and 18 points for Dinkins), both contests turned out to be squeakers...