I think it'll have an effect now. With Romney winning Michigan, McCain goes to SC with a lot less steam than he otherwise would have. In his concession speach, he looked like that guy in the Lil' Abner comic strip who always had bridges collapse behind him, and tornados strike just after he went by. Joe Bltsphk, or something like that.
                The whole experience gives new meaning to the term, "Black in the face."
                Anyway, now he has to go south and do battle with the folks who are really out of touch with reality, Huckabee and Thompson.