JOHN MCCAIN

AGE: 70
OCCUPATION: United States Senator from Arizona, presidential hopeful for 2008
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 3
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1

PRO: 2008 Republican Presidential candidate who sponsored campaign-finance and lobbying-reform initiatives and was pivotal in exposing the Jack Abramoff scandal.

CON: His support of Gay Rights issues, guest worker programs for illegal immigrants and his opposition to the Bush Tax cuts, not to mention is public relations missteps, may serve to alienate him from his own party—and lose the nomination.