Worse is that even with McCain running in his own state, the House delegation moved to MAJORITY Democrat (5D-3R) for the first time in 44 years (6 years ago, there was only ONE Democrat in the entire delegation). Contrast that with Bob Dole running in Kansas in 1996 and he kept the entire federal delegation Republican, including a new Conservative that won in a notoriously RINO district.
If the economy hadn’t melted McCain would’ve run a lot stronger.