March 13, 2003
BOB GRAHAM ANNOUNCES FOR PRESIDENT:
Graham's Back (Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Steve Chaggaris and John Nolen, March 13, 2003, CBS News)Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., is back in the Senate. He voted against the ban on so-called partial birth abortions this morning and went to the Senate floor to say he'll vote against cloture on the Democratic filibuster on the Estrada nomination.
When a guy casts two votes that he doesn't really believe in and that hurt him back home but are required for the Democratic presidential primaries, the official announcement is just a formality. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 13, 2003 1:46 PM
True, but it is yet another example of how Southern Senate Democrats are not yet feeling the heat for straying so far away from their constituencies. (This is perhaps less so for Graham:Florida.) For sure they are not paying the price for providing the numerical cover for some of the more invidious policies being concocted by the (far more) Liberal leadership (Daschle-Clinton). Karl Rove still has a lot of work to do to get the changing local landscape in the South to mean anything at the National level.
Posted by: MG at March 14, 2003 3:35 AMMG - more repeats of Georgia in '02 (Chambliss beating Cleland) will bring the local landscape in the South to the National level. Let's see what happens in '04 in SC, LA, FL, GA, NC, and AR, not to mention ND, SD, NV, and WA
Posted by: AWW at March 14, 2003 9:00 AMAnd recall that no one at the time recognized that Max Clelan d had handed his opponents the sword with which they'd dispatch him. These things matter most when they become campaign ads.
Posted by: oj at March 14, 2003 11:29 AM