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Hillary Clinton became the subject of debate this week when she appeared to choke up at a town meeting in New Hampshire. Many observers compared her to Edmund Muskie, whose 1972 presidential campaign was reputedly undone by a display of tears on the campaign trail. Are tears really that fatal to a candidate's chances?

David Broder of the Washington Post wrote the initial story to depict a weeping Muskie.