Mostly ,the low profile he kept, combined with outright worship of the man by our media. Since he rarely appeared in the headlines, it was quite easy for the media to hide the fact that Graham was a loyal little foot soldier for Tommy Daschle, Teddy Kennedy and the rest of the left-wing Senate Democrats, dutifully casting his votes in accordance with their wishes.
The media were able to paint him as a "moderate" and as some kind of great legendary politician in the mold of a Lawton Chiles. This is an insult to Chiles, BTW - Chiles was a Democrat, but much more of a Zell Miller-type than an anti-American leftist ideologue like the current Rat leaders in the Senate (of whom Graham, as I have pointed out, is a faithful tool). I didn't agree with a lot of Chiles' positions, but he was a decent and honorable man for the most part. Bob Graham isn't fit to hold his jockstrap.
Once Graham started letting people here in Florida know what he was REALLY like by pandering to the Treason wing of the Rat Party, hsi support started plummetting. He'll still carry South Florida, of course - those people give Castro higher approval numbers than George Bush, and that's 1/3 of the state. But north of Palm Beach County, we're a LOT more conservative, and we're ready to stuff Bob Graham's little diaries up his ass and ship him back to Miami Lakes.
Sorry, I can't agree with that, having had the unfortunate experience of working for one of Chiles corrupt cronies.
Once Graham started letting people here in Florida know what he was REALLY like by pandering to the Treason wing of the Rat Party, hsi support started plummetting.
Exactly -- he hid behind his so-called "moderate" views, which were never more than complete goose-stepping for the Dems.
He'll still carry South Florida, of course
Anyone with a "D" after their name carries S. Florida.