Beep If You Want Him as Veep

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.