BuzzFeed - Win Mcnamee / Getty Images Her slogans depicted a candidate who was "ready to lead" and "ready on day one." Her ads promised a president with the experience for the "3 a.m. phone call" and the strength for the "toughest job in the world." Her top strategist crafted a message in the style of Margaret Thatcher, a figure known, as he put it, for "smart, tough leadership," not "good humor or warmth." In her campaign eight years ago, over and over again, Hillary Clinton reassured voters of one key attribute: her toughness. So in most retellings of the 2008 election, what happened the day before the New Hampshire primary, at a small cafe in Portsmouth, came as a kind of watershed moment â a rare show of emotion, cast as "humanizing" by some and "rehearsed" by others. In Clinton's own retelling, the day she welled up with tears is one she sees now as an almost inherent part of the campaign process. If she was fixated in her first presidential bid on strength, Clinton is far mo
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