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After a long primary battle, Mitt Romney now seems like the inevitable GOP nominee for president. But as his fellow Republicans begin to rally around him, Iowa voters received a letter in the mail from Romney’s one-time opponent, Rick Santorum, who seems anything but enthused.

In a move that all but assures Mitt Romney will become the GOP nominee for president, fellow candidate Rick Santorum decided Monday to drop out of the race.

On the NBC drama ‘The West Wing,’ the Secret Service code name given to staffer CJ Cregg was “Flamingo.” And while she wasn’t all that happy about it, it made sense — the character was played by statuesque actress Allison Janney. But many are scratching their heads about the current code names being used by GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum went to Puerto Rico last week to gin up support for the GOP primary which took place on the island territory over the weekend. He probably would’ve been better off staying stateside, as he ended up getting crushed by GOP rival  Mitt Romney 83 to 8% in the contest. Even the former Pennsylvania Senator’s attempt to do a little sunbathing turned against

A lot of political pundits and pickers have said the GOP’s nomination race hasn’t been able to fire up a lot of people. Well, it seems that Rick Santorum even has trouble firing up his own family.

So today on the Rise and Shine Show I talked about a weekend poll from USA Today/Gallup that polled folks in 12 states on who they would go for in a given match up; Obama v. Romney, Gingrich, Paul or Santorum. If the election were held right now,

Close barley defines it. Eight votes is all that separated Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Iowa Caucus. It was a photo finish that just may go down in the history books as the closest presidential contest ever. In a close third place position is the man many thought could take Iowa, Texas congressman Ron Paul. With all precincts counted, the final tally looks like this: