Benjy Sarlin explores one of the odder dynamics of the GOP primary cycle: The more the candidates vied to be the anti-Romney, the more shots they took at each other and the fewer they took at Mitt, leaving him largely untouched in some of the most bruising campaign battles leading up to the Iowa caucus.
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