Tony Brown1* COMMENTS Can Jesse Jackson Win? . .The primary weakness of Jesse Jack son’s campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for President has . been tested and found genuine. After months of denying that he is a -Mack-symbolic candidate and insisting that he heads a “Rainbow Coalition’’ of all races, the Jackson campaign limps into the South, beset by White voter rejection in the North, to the only constituency that it ever had - Macks. Instead of “Rainbow Coalition," the appropriate slogan all along should have bgen “Blacks for Jackson." And be dfesn’t have a lock on that vote either. - Older blacks are sappprtiqg Mondale; i younger blacks - the most unlikely to vote - are Jackson’s solid base. In the New Hampshire primary where Jackson spent over $1,000,000 and mpet of his time, be received only 5,28$ votes or six percent of the total. He tied for fourth place in a field of eight. Even Republican Ronald Reagan beat at least three of the Democratic hopefuls with an estimated five percent of the Democra tic contest. • * yt Jackson’s final campaign days in New Hampshire were dogged by his calling Jews “Hymies” and New York “Hymie town.” This racial slur, first denied by Jackson, speeded up his slippage in the polls, which had been underway for over a month. His final confession came only after he was forced to admit to using the racist terms. ;%fftagmreW'l^mle” InSdent,’*'* Jackson was falling out of favor with the vot^S, JJp started Off With 10 percent of -* the Democratic vote - even before be officially declared. After his successful trip to Syria, he went up to 15 percent. By mid-February and before the Jew ish slur was made public by the Wash ington Post. he had sunk to nine permit • a loss of six percent in one month. Among Democrats in' the South - where a large percentage of voters are black - he went down to 10 percent. Even in the black community, Jack-' son’s most solid base of support, by mid February Mondale had 43 percent of the black votes and Jackson trailed with 39' percent Nationally, among Democrats, . Mondale is also ahead of Jackson 55 to nine percent, a 46 point lead. of the Democratic Party, but Jackson supporters still insist that he is going to win, that his “Rainbow Coalition” of issues will attract enough voters to overtake Mondale. In order to have any chance of winning the Democratic Party nomination, Jack son must insoire blacks. Especially in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, to vote, for him on “Super Tuesday," Marchft. He-must first convince them, however, that he can win. Although he generates emotion and excites many blacks, the Jackson, question becomes, “Can Jesse win?” " - ., I-asked leaders of two national black organizations to debate this question on my program: Rev. Herburt Daughtry, Chairperson of the National Black United Front, who is also special assistant to Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Mr. Roy Innis, National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, also known as CORE. Following are excerpts front that upcom ing program: Daughtry: t think he s already won. I think a people excluded have to define for themselves what winning is. I think of • eight ways in which he’s already won. He’s already won because he has lifted the hopes and spirits of our people across the country. He’s already won because of the greater involvement. “He’s already won because he has brought about more unity among our people. He’s already won because he has raised tboJevel of political disenttidfl’ We has brought abtiut a 1dhd 6f dignity and pride. 1 nmjliH v- ’ "He lias won because he has been a pioneer. Neva- again will they take lightly the aspirations if a black man or woman who says, ‘I’m running for the Presidency of the United States ’ So in that sense, he has already won.” Innis: “I wish that Rev. Daughtry and ' the other enthusiasts of Rev. Jackson . would have expressed that statement to the grass roots folks and to the black students that I’ve been talking to who believe that Jesse can win - but not in the poetic sense that Rev. Daughtry just described for us. But win in terms of winning the Democratic primary. “We should understand that very delicate and important instrument that is this political revival among black people. — We shouldn’t toy with it. we shouldn’t play withit, we shouldn’t run the risk of dashing hopes against the hard wall of despair, and this, I think, is what is being done when ReV. Daughtry and others around Jesse say to the grass roots, and say to young black students that he’s going to win, not meaning it in a poetic rl .sense."1 -J . , - tl - . 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