[Alberta's Child]

John McCain ran against GWB in the 2000 primaries. He won seven states, and five of them were in New England.

Since then, I’ve made a point of ignoring GOP primary results from those states.

[bankwalker]

in 2008 McCain’s campaign was on life support after Iowa. He went to NH and busloads of New Yorkers went up to vote for him. He went on to win the nomination.