Aw: Politico rates McCain the Republican most likely to back Obama

On the economy, McCain could become a crucial collaborator as Obama seeks to convince enough Senate Republicans to pass his proposed $825 billion stimulus package.

“There are not many times in history,” he told Neil Cavuto of Fox News in early January, “that a president has come to office with as many challenges as the president-elect does, and that’s incumbent, then, upon all of us to try and do all we can to work with him.”