** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., holds a packed rally at the State house in Concord, N.H., Monday, Jan. 31, 2000, the last full day of campaigning before the nation's earliest presidential primary Feb. 1. 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)