Ron Paul scales back hopeless effort, refuses to back McCain

latimesblogs.latimes.com — His campaign currently claims a total of 42, 1,149 shy of the total to win and some 650 behind the GOP leader, though other estimates give him only 16. He took third in Washington over the weekend and fourth in Kansas behind even Mitt Romney, who'd dropped out. Feb 12, 2008 View in Crawl 4