hampshire and here in south carolina. people are taking it more seriously. as they are taking it more seriously they are leaving slogans to go to solutions and i think that's beginning to con sal date. >> seems to be a little back and forth developing between the candidates. and mitt romney is saying you have been a life-long politician, and you are making the observation that you think you are the more conservative and more electable candidate. >> first of all, i am a life-long citizen. my dad was a career soldier, 27 years in the infantry. i decided when we were living in europe when i was 15 that trying to understand what america needed to do to survive, how you would explain it to the american people to get their permission to do it and how you would implement it would be my life's work. i plead guilty to being a citizen who has work as a teacher, i work as a speaker in public life, i have worked in elected office, i have worked in private business. in every case i have thought of citizenship as a key part of how