Why didn’t Bob Graham’s campaign pick up steam in the 04’ Dem. primary?

[TheBeardedOne]

He was easily the most experienced candidate compared to the rest with being a member of both state legislature houses for a combined 12 years, governor of the 4th largest state (being Florida (by population)) for 8 years, and being an incumbent senator from Florida in his 16th year. Why did he drop out so early?

[Indy Texas]

You haven't heard of the scandal about the diaries?

It became known that he had a habit of writing down summaries of everything he did on a given day and keeping the hundreds of notebooks that had accumulated over the years. They weren't really "diaries" in a reflective sense - it was often mundane things like what meals he ate, mundane errands he did, etc.

But the press decided this was an incredibly weird, creepy thing to do and he became cast as a quixotic goofball.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

You haven't heard of the scandal about the diaries?

It became known that he had a habit of writing down summaries of everything he did on a given day and keeping the hundreds of notebooks that had accumulated over the years. They weren't really "diaries" in a reflective sense - it was often mundane things like what meals he ate, mundane errands he did, etc.

But the press decided this was an incredibly weird, creepy thing to do and he became cast as a quixotic goofball.

Bob Graham voted against the 2002 Iraq resolution, so our pro-war neolib media decided to destroy him with this fake scandal, the same way they destroyed Dean with the "Dean scream".

[Fuzzy Bear]

Stupidly, Democrats did not recognize that he was the strongest candidate.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Stupidly, Democrats did not recognize that he was the strongest candidate.

But he didn't vote for the Iraq war, which means we wouldn't have gotten gems like John Kerry saying it was the "wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time" and then saying his only problem with it was only our troops were dying because we didn't drag enough of our allies into it.

[Free Bird]

Stupidly, Democrats did not recognize that he was the strongest candidate.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He was out with heart disease. Dean campaign fueled Edwards rise. It was about Kerry and Edwards.

[junior chįmp]

Because nobody cares about experience, the issues, policy positions, or your record

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You haven't heard of the scandal about the diaries?

It became known that he had a habit of writing down summaries of everything he did on a given day and keeping the hundreds of notebooks that had accumulated over the years. They weren't really "diaries" in a reflective sense - it was often mundane things like what meals he ate, mundane errands he did, etc.

But the press decided this was an incredibly weird, creepy thing to do and he became cast as a quixotic goofball.

Bob Graham voted against the 2002 Iraq resolution, so our pro-war neolib media decided to destroy him with this fake scandal, the same way they destroyed Dean with the "Dean scream".

Not only that, but he called for every Senator to read the intelligence report before voting. His reading it made him decide to vote nay. Leahy also said he voted nay because of reading it. But very few other senators read it.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Everyone misread the Edwards candidacy. He lacked forei policy experience. Gephardt or Graham as Veep would have helped Gore and Kerry as Veeps over Dubya.

[Indy Texas]

You haven't heard of the scandal about the diaries?

It became known that he had a habit of writing down summaries of everything he did on a given day and keeping the hundreds of notebooks that had accumulated over the years. They weren't really "diaries" in a reflective sense - it was often mundane things like what meals he ate, mundane errands he did, etc.

But the press decided this was an incredibly weird, creepy thing to do and he became cast as a quixotic goofball.

Bob Graham voted against the 2002 Iraq resolution, so our pro-war neolib media decided to destroy him with this fake scandal, the same way they destroyed Dean with the "Dean scream".

Not only that, but he called for every Senator to read the intelligence report before voting. His reading it made him decide to vote nay. Leahy also said he voted nay because of reading it. But very few other senators read it.

They were elected to lead, not to read.

[Progressive Pessimist]

You haven't heard of the scandal about the diaries?

It became known that he had a habit of writing down summaries of everything he did on a given day and keeping the hundreds of notebooks that had accumulated over the years. They weren't really "diaries" in a reflective sense - it was often mundane things like what meals he ate, mundane errands he did, etc.

But the press decided this was an incredibly weird, creepy thing to do and he became cast as a quixotic goofball.

Bob Graham voted against the 2002 Iraq resolution, so our pro-war neolib media decided to destroy him with this fake scandal, the same way they destroyed Dean with the "Dean scream".

Not only that, but he called for every Senator to read the intelligence report before voting. His reading it made him decide to vote nay. Leahy also said he voted nay because of reading it. But very few other senators read it.

They were elected to lead, not to read.

To think that our current situation is more ridiculous than that. It's not even funny anymore.

[Stranger in a strange land]

A better question is why Al Gore didn’t pick him as his running mate in 2000.