Ah well..I guess if you think about it, we potentially dodged a huge bullet. McCain only died what, a year and a half(edit: googled, 2.5, not 1.5) after his second term would've ended? And you know how being POTUS ages you like crazy because of the stress of the job. It's entirely possible winning would've exacerbated his condition and we'd have had a couple years of President Sarah Palin at the end.