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Clinton's team downplays near-crying episode

A day after her big New Hampshire comeback, aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton downplayed the notion her campaign would be on the scrap heap if she hadn't nearly cried on Monday.

As Clinton savored her 47- to 34-percent win over Barack Obama with female voters here, the 64-year-old woman whose question prompted the former first lady to puddle up told reporters she voted for Obama because Clinton...

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