Bob graham should have been picked. Kerry was a liberal and was just as boring as gore. Graham was a new dem and good debater.
Bob Graham had been considered a contender for the nomination himself that year until it became known that he had a tendency to keep little notebooks with him to write down everything he did in a given day, including mundane things like running errands and eating lunch. People thought that was weird and it was part of the reason he fell off the shortlist. Never mind that less than a decade later the entire country would be doing the same thing, but with Facebook and Twitter instead of little notebooks.
