** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, tries to walk through a packed crowd of reporters, photographers, television crews and voters following a noontime rally at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. Monday Jan. 31, 2000, the last full day of campaigning before the 2000 New Hampshire presidential primary. In 2007 McCain's slide in the presidential race shows up everywhere on the campaign trail. His campaign staff is drastically reduced and his organization nearly broke. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)