He's hardly registering in the polls, but Senator Bob Graham's formal entry last week into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is nonetheless bad news for nearly everyone else in the crowded field. "He's the Swiss Army knife," sighs an adviser to one of the other candidates. "No matter how you open him, he hurts somebody."
Count the ways: Graham has the edge in fund raising in his home state of Florida, a blow to Senator Joe Lieberman, who had been counting on significant support in the state he worked so effectively as Al Gore's 2000 running mate. As a...
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