The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

p> READY AND TICKING br> Sen. John Edwards may be running for the vice presidency while campaigning for president, and Wesley Clark may be claiming he's already been asked to be the number two, but it's Sen. Bob Graham -- he of the failed presidential bid -- who appears to be very publicly seeking the position at the bottom of Vermont Gov. Howie Dean 's ticket. /p>

In November, at the Florida Democratic Party convention, Graham met with Dean for more than hour, and then went out and sung the man's praises to the press and the conventioneers. Graham's wife has attended Dean fundraisers in Miami, and in early December, Graham's daughter, Gwen Logan, was hired by the Dean campaign as a "senior advisor."

All of this, coupled with Dean's pronouncement that he will make up for his foreign policy inexperience with his vice-presidential pick, has led many to believe that the veepship is Graham's to lose.

"And he's got a heart problem, so we're even up with Bush-Cheney," says a Dean staffer in New Hampshire.

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