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Fresh off his wins in Arizona and Michigan, Mitt Romney was back out on the trail campaigning in Ohio today - and as ABC News' David Muir reported on "World News with Diane Sawyer" a town hall in Bexley, Ohio provided to be a surprisingly candid moment for the candidate.

During the question and answer portion of the campaign event supporter Greg Davis took his turn at the microphone to share his frustration with how his candidate of choice is being portrayed.

"We have seen that you are very successful. It seems like the media portrays you like you don't have a heart. I'd like you to share with all the American citizens what you have done in your life, where you have received no compensation, to show the American people that you have a lot of heart and you love Americans," Davis told Romney.

"One of the challenges in a presidential campaign is that most people just see you in the debates," Romney replied.  "And in settings like that, people don't get to know you very well. And in settings like this, with questions like that, you can get to know me a little better. By far the most important thing in my life is my wife Ann and I fell in love young, we're still in love.  We have a marriage still filled with love."

As Muir reported on "World News" Romney went on to talk about his sons and grandsons, and then in a rare moment Romney brought up his Mormon faith, something he rarely discussed on the campaign trail.

"My religion is an unusual one in a number of respects, but one in particular, we don't have a paid ministry in our church. So we don't have a minister that is full time. And instead, the church head quarters asks certain members to serve as pastor of the congregation. So I was asked to do that for a certain period of time. And of course that is done without compensation. It would be around 20-40 hours a week. So on top of my job, I was pasturing people in my congregation," explained Romney.

Many political observers looking to the weeks, and possibly months, ahead in this campaign say that this type of candor and emotion is exactly what Romney needs to better relate to voters.

Romney's unfavorable rating in the latest ABC News / Washington post poll has him going up to 46 percent rather than down.

It is a reality he will need to reverse in order to have success in a general election.

Watch David Muir's report on Romney's surprisingly candid moment on the campaign trail: