AAPP: When it's not going well in the polls, she breaks down with contrived tears to get the womens sympathy vote.
Source: CBS Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens during a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale in the 1970's. (AP)
Clinton then began to tear up, Suarez reports. When she took the microphone she said, "I said I would not tear up. Already we’re not exactly on that path."
At one point she wiped her eyes with her hand. But unlike her teary-eyed moment in Portsmouth, N.H., her voice never broke and she tried make light of her emotion.
Some credited her New Hampshire display of emotion - during a discussion of how she is affected by campaigning for president - with aiding her comeback in that state from an earlier defeat by rival Barack Obama in Iowa. More HERE