April 04, 2012 07:23 PM UTC

Mitt Finally Becomes Inevitable. No, Really

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• by: Colorado Pols

As our friends at “The Fix” explain, we have our general election matchup for President:

For the umpteenth time in the Republican presidential primary race, Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum in a major Midwestern swing state – a win that effectively forecloses any chance that the former Massachusetts governor might not be the GOP nominee in the fall.

Romney’s victory in Wisconsin was consistent with the polling conducted in the runup to the vote. He was also buoyed by easy victories in the lower-profile primaries held in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Santorum’s camp claimed earlier Tuesday that the Wisconsin result mattered little to their calculus, insisting that the former Pennsylvania senator would remain in the race at least until his home state votes on April 24…

…Santorum, of course, can stay in the race as long as he likes. But, his large delegate deficit coupled with defeats in big – and symbolically important – states like Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin mean the political oxygen is out of the room for Santorum.

With Romney having finally become inevitable after 18 months as the “inevitable” candidate, the General Election is officially underway.