what state is rick santorum from?
Pennsylvania
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 Under his fictional persona in The Colbert Report , Colbert dropped hints of a potential presidential run throughout 2007 , with speculation intensifying following the release of his book , I Am America ( And So Can You ! ) , which was rumored to be a sign that he was indeed testing the waters for a future bid for the White House . On October 16 , 2007 , he announced his candidacy on his show , stating his intention to run both on the Republican and Democratic platforms , but only as a " favorite son " in his native South Carolina . He later abandoned plans to run as a Republican due to the $ 35 @,@ 000 fee required to file for the South Carolina primary , however he continued to seek a place on the Democratic ballot and on October 28 , 2007 , campaigned in the South Carolina state capital of Columbia , where he was presented with the key to the city by Mayor Bob Coble . 

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 During one scene of " Winter Madness " , Toofer tells the writing staff that he went to college in Boston , " Well , not in Boston , but nearby " , mocking a common stereotype of Harvard students that they will not mention that they attend the University , for fear of intimidating anyone , but will still strongly hint to it . Later , Jack and Nancy imitate former Boston newscasters Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson , who were the most @-@ watched news team in Boston for twenty years . Nancy tells Jack that her husband moved to New Orleans to rebuild houses that were affected by Hurricane Katrina as part of actor Brad Pitt 's Make It Right Foundation , an organization building affordable housing to help those families most in need following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . 

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 After being considered as a potential Vice Presidential candidate for Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election , former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack began a campaign for the Democratic Party 's 2008 nomination for President of the United States . 

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 Meanwhile , he went to Washington , D.C. in 1957 to campaign for Alaskan statehood via the " Tennessee Plan " : dressed as Paul Revere , he rode with a petition to the steps of the U.S. Capitol . Seeing Alaska as a wide @-@ open place with no political establishment or entrenched interests , and using the slogan " Gravel , the Roadbed to Prosperity " , he ran for the territorial legislature in 1958 but lost . He went on a national speaking tour concerning tax reform in 1959 , sponsored by the Jaycees . He ran without avail for the City Council in Anchorage in 1960 . During this time , he had become a successful real estate agent ; after the 1960 election , he became a property developer in a mobile home park on the outskirts of Anchorage . A partner ran into financial difficulty , however , and the project went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Gravel was forced out in 1962 . 

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 Questions were occasionally asked about Romney 's eligibility to run for President owing to his birth in Mexico , given the ambiguity in the United States Constitution over the phrase " natural @-@ born citizen " . Romney would depart the race before the matter could be more definitively resolved , although the preponderance of opinion then and since has been that he was eligible . 
