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Hurricane spurs McCain to scale back GOP convention

ST. LOUIS - The anticipated impact of Hurricane Gustav today will reverberate all the way from the Gulf states to Minnesota, where GOP presumptive nominee John McCain dramatically scaled back the GOP convention and left open the question of whether he would even attend.

Faced with a potentially disastrous storm during the week of his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate, McCain...

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