McCormick defeated fellow Republican Dylan Glenn in the primary, but subsequently lost to incumbent Democrat Sanford Bishop in the general election.

Among the dozens of people interviewed included Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, American Conservative Union chairman David Keene, ACLU president Nadine Strossen, and Reagan White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger.

[10][11] McCormick produced a 20 minute documentary about this trip and a subsequent experiment in transpartisan citizen empowerment called the Rogue Valley Wisdom Council.

[15][16][3] In February 2009, McCormick organized the first American Citizen's Summit in Denver, Colorado on the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with the theme "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Out of this gathering emerged prototypes of a Transpartisan Alliance of grassroots groups representing millions of people and an associated policy council of leaders from major and minor parties called the Sunshine Cabinet.