POST FALLS - Actually, the different candidates have a lot in common.

In a pre-caucus caucus of sorts, four Republicans this week stumped for their preferential presidential nomination in Post Falls, giving locals a last chance to buff up on political sticking points heading into Super Tuesday's GOP caucus.

Hosted by the Panhandle Pachyderm Club, a Republican service organization, the presidential supporters agreed upon more than they argued.

Trimming or eliminating federal departments, cutting spending, supporting Israel and helping unite the GOP at the end of the primary to defeat the president in November, they all said.

"We have to recognize the common enemy and that's Barack Obama," said Jim Hollingsworth, member of Kootenai County for Ron Paul, speaking in support of the Congressman.

He backed Paul on grounds that the Texan would remove all the military from foreign countries, which would reduce the budget, and follow the letter of the law on the Constitution in all matters.

States, he said, should be able to decide their own laws, including whether to legalize drugs.

"Which one of the four men is going to leave us with the smallest government?" he asked. "That's the question."

Supporters for Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum had their own answers.

Adam Waldeck, director of Gingrich's South Carolina primary campaign, pointed to the former Speaker of the House's tenure in Washington in which the nation had a balanced budget for four years.

Gingrich would cut the Department of Energy, shrink the Department of Education, and repeal several of the current administration's bills, including health care overhaul, on his first day of office, he said.

"When Obama is flying back to Chicago, 40 percent of his government would be dismantled," he said.

The supporters answered questions and asked for votes on Tuesday. Much of it was familiar talking points for people who have been following the primary debates on television.

"It was informative, but it was a lot of reiteration of all the talking points I've heard," said Jennifer Riley, as she left the forum. She plans to vote Tuesday, she's just not sure for whom. "It's still a toss up between a couple of them."

After the forum Dorene Russell also said she was undecided on whom she would favor Tuesday.

"I'm still a little on the fence," she said.

Tuesday's caucus is the first in Idaho for the GOP. It's also the first time the vote has been this early in the primary season, prompting Santorum and Gingrich to visit Coeur d'Alene recently.

While the party preached unity, Santorum's supporter, local businessman Jim Hightower, separated his candidate by contrasting him with the others. A vote for Romney would be for "Romneycare," he said, while Paul didn't stand for anything except saying no, and Gingrich had too many indiscretions in his past.

Santorum, meanwhile, showed backbone by writing "legislation banning partial-birth abortion" and supporting the Iraq war despite the war's unpopularity.

"That took courage," Hightower said.

Former Idaho Lt. Governor Jack Riggs, supporting the Romney campaign, pointed to Romney's experience in business as invaluable at tackling the economy head on. Before reducing federal programs and departments, Romney would study each one.

"It's not about trying to out-conservative the other," he said. "It really is about the economy."