If only we had nominated our candidate...
You can thank open and winner-take-all primaries for that. McCain became the presumptive nominee of the party with just 31% of the primary vote. And he was the only top tier candidate of either party who could not win his home state primary with 50% or more of the vote. The MSM and the GOP establishment [read RINOs] helped nominate the oldest man ever to get the first time nomination of his party and package him as “change” despite the fact that he had been in Washnington for more than 30 years.