Gov. Rick Perry surprised the political world and many of his own advisers Wednesday by deciding to stay in the Republican presidential race despite a fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. Austin Statesman Iowa gives Rick Santorum a virtual dead heat with Romney and a Win. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann goes home ending her campaign Today President Obama will used the Senate recess period to appoint Richard  Cordray  a former Ohio attorney general to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ,Sharon Block, Richard Griffin and Terence F. Flynn to the NLRB.