THE HOWARD DEAN SEALED-RECORDS ISSUE is hurting him, according to Howard Fineman:

Is Howard Dean ready for prime time? I’m not so sure after watching him handle—if that is the word—the issue that has taken possession of his campaign this week: the 10-year seal he placed on the records of his 12-year tenure as governor of Vermont.

As Fineman notes, this isn’t a big story, and probably doesn’t deserve to be. But if the press decides that Dean can’t be trusted, it’ll hurt him later — though more in the general election than in the primaries, I suspect.