looking for? reporter: it s pretty amazing, paula, that here we are in new hampshire on primary day and for the last couple days we ve all been talking about south carolina because that could be the critical primary in this republican race. mitt romney does have a lead down there, which was a bit surprising when those polls came out at the end of last week, but that is because the other candidates right now are splitting up the conservative vote. so what happens tomorrow, or today here in new hampshire could give some momentum to some candidates. you could see somebody like a rick santorum perhaps continue that surge that we saw him in iowa. but here s the thing you need to know about south carolina. they have a very long history of dirty, ugly, downright nasty primaries. over the next ten days there are going to be millions of dollars spent on television ads. and those ads are not going to be warm and fuzzy. and they re really going to be focused on mitt romney. so perhaps