Graves also was counting on backing from the Trump Administration.
What is more, many of the candidates can count on backing from Asian-American donors this year, though Mr. Hevesi has clearly been the most successful in this regard.
And he can always count on backing from Gazprom, the biggest firm in Russia, which he ran from 1989 to 1992.Not to be outdone, Mr Berezovsky's main rival, Vladimir Potanin, boss of the Uneximbank group, has been putting out feelers to Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow, who is a leading contender for Mr Yeltsin's job.
Republicans whom Democrats had been counting on quickly backed him.
It sits in a renovated house in this city's historic center — coincidentally across from a school named Gandhi — and also counts on backing by private donors.
The United States has made direct appeals to Saudi Arabia and Jordan to give Sadat's program a chance, and the Egyptians had been counting on back-door Saudi tolerance of what they were doing to entice some Palestinians into the proposed negotiations on autonomy for Israeli-occupied territories.
Even so, Mr. Obama has some fence-mending to do before he can count on any serious backing from the business community.
Near the end of that decade, Francis Bouygues's stake amounted to just under 8%, though he could count for backing on the group's then largest shareholder, Crédit Lyonnais, at the time one of France's largest banks.
"The minute you are counted on or backed by the Americans, kiss it goodbye, you will never win".
But it does lead some diplomats to wonder whether Obama and Rice can be counted on to back up Kerry when he makes a deal.
