[Dog Gone]

It speaks volumes that the candidates who have had a chance to get to know one another personally generally like Mike and dislike Mitt, as did the Iowa voters who were able to evaluate candidates face-to-face.

There are two assumptions in that statement that I have no reason to believe at face value.

I don't think they get to know each other. They avoid each other on the campaign trail.

And I've seen no evidence that any of the other candidates like each other at all.

[b9]

“I’ve seen no evidence that any of the other candidates like each other at all.”

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Lynne Hunter likes Mike, sining on the left
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/01/lynne-hunter-jan-5-2007-dont-let-press.html

[silent_jonny]

And I've seen no evidence that any of the other candidates like each other at all.

I agree. If anything, most of them seem to dislike Huckabee.

[djreece]

Well, I based my “assumption” that they got to know each other on the campaign trail on Duncan Hunter’s own words in his endorsement of Huckabee. Also, without a doubt they get to know one another in terms of how each candidate runs his or her campaign, whether it is with decency or integrity or not.

Also, in my personal experience, I have found brief personal encounters with people whom I have only known about through the media or by reputation to be very telling in allowing me to judge their characters.