History might be about to repeat itself for the McCain campaign. Robert Novak reports that McCain is going to consider pulling out of the Iowa caucus and focusing his attention on New Hampshire, as he did in 2000.

Novak says McCain would do so in order to lessen the embarrassment of fifth place showing behind Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani and Thompson. McCain also placed fifth in Iowa in 2000, when he did not contest the state, coming in behind Bush, Forbes, Keyes and Bauer.