Will Santorum drop out if the polls show Romney likely to win Pennsylvania?

GOP consultants said Santorum needs to be devising a strategy for leaving the race, and might want to save himself the embarrassment of potentially losing on his home turf next month.

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“The race is absolutely over,” said GOP strategist Patrick Griffin, who consulted for both president Bushes. “The jig is up here, it’s just a question of when Butch and Sundance decide to put up the white flag.”

Griffin said Santorum would be at a major risk of losing Pennsylvania once Romney starts to focus his time and resources there. What Santorum should be doing, Griffin said, is planning a graceful exit.

“The thing to do is to get through Wisconsin and step up and say, ‘Okay, we fought the good fight, we did the good thing, we had a good message that appealed again and again to a small constituency of the party,” Griffin said.

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