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Jet, Nov 4, 2002 by Simeon Booker

CONFIDENTIAL: Democratic strategists expect Black voters to stream to the polls during this November election to give the party once again its control of Capitol Hill and to elect one or more minority members to high-ranking posts, including, perhaps, a U.S. Senate seat from Texas and New York's governorship.

New York comptroller H. Carl McCall eyes the state's highest post and has been promised $1 million by supporters of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton during the closing days of the race. In Texas, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk still leads in the Senate race. A seldom-mentioned political gain could happen in Georgia, where for the first time, five Blacks could be elected to the U.S. House, setting an unusual record. They include incumbents, Reps. John Lewis and Sanford D. Bishop Jr., along with Denise Majette, David Scott, and Charles Walker ... National Urban League President Hugh Price decided that crisscrossing the country on lecture tours did not exactly help Black parents steer their children toward achievements in education. So he wrote a book, Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible, to get his message into individual homes ... Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton won an early victory in her drive to secure D.C. full voting rights in Congress. For the first time in 24 years, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee voted 9-0 to approve the bill ... Another Black involved in the D.C. sniper hunt is John Marshall, Virginia's safety director and son of late Justice Thurgood Marshall.