Republican #1

1. Sen. John McCain (R) Arizona
After eight years of President Bush, the Republican party will be in shambles. With plummeting approval ratings for Bush, Republicans in Congress, the war in Iraq, the economy, and many other issues, many Republicans will jump ship to save their careers. John McCain is known in every household in the country, as he receives so much media attention. Although he is no moderate, (he always voted for oil drilling in the Artic Wildlife Refuge, to ban "partial birth" abortion and stem cell research, and supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, a rejected amendment that would have prohibited Gay Marriage. He recieved very low ratings from the NAACP, the Brady Campaign against Gun Violence, and voted many times to cut education, food stamps, and welfare spending) McCain was shot down and tortured in Vietnam, and the public views him as an independent thinker because he occaisonally disagrees with the radical policies of the current administration. Due to Allen and Frist's loss of momentum, if will take an unforseen upheaval to get the nomination to somebody else.