After McCain handily won the N.H. primary, money poured into his campaign-- $1 million in one peak day including matching funds. So why didn't he win the nomination? Because the GOP politicos, along with key Republican governors in key primary states, had already chosen Bush. Republican primary voters were not the representative sample of people to whom McCain's reformist language appealed. They view themselves more as conservatives than reformers.
When someone like McCain cannot upend the pols in his own party, it goes to show how extremely rigid the GOP can be.
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