PORTSMOUTH , New Hampshire ( CNN ) -- Hillary Clinton became visibly emotional at a New Hampshire campaign event Monday after a friendly question from a voter . Sen. Hillary Clinton 's eyes welled with tears as she spoke in New Hampshire Monday . At the close of a Portsmouth campaign stop , Marianne Pernold-Young , 64 , asked Clinton : `` How do you do it ? How do you keep up ... and who does your hair ? '' Clinton said she had help with her hair on `` special days , '' and that she drew criticism on the days she did not . Then she added : `` It 's not easy , and I could n't do it if I just did n't , you know , passionately believe it was the right thing to do . `` You know , I have so many opportunities from this country , I just do n't want to see us fall backwards , '' she said , her voice breaking a bit . The audience applauded . `` This is very personal for me , it 's not just political , it 's [ that ] I see what 's happening , we have to reverse it , '' she said emotionally , adding that some `` just put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds . `` But some of us are right and some of us are wrong . Some of us ready and some of us are not . Some of us know what we will do on day one , and some of us really have n't thought that through enough . '' `` So as tired as I am and I am . And as difficult as it is to try and keep up what I try to do on the road , like occasionally exercise and try to eat right -- it 's tough when the easiest food is pizza -- I just believe so strongly in who we are as a nation . So I 'm going to do everything I can and make my case and you know the voters get to decide . '' Watch Clinton become emotional as she 's answering a question » . The New York senator is under pressure after some weekend surveys show opponent Barack Obama with a sudden almost double digit lead , with less than a day to go until the New Hampshire primary . At a New Hampshire campaign event , presidential rival John Edwards told reporters he was unaware of Clinton 's emotional reaction and would not respond to it . But he did say , `` I think what we need in a commander in chief is strength and resolve , and presidential campaigns are a tough business , but being president of the United States is also a very tough business . `` And the President of the United States is faced with very , very difficult challenges every single day , difficult judgments every single day . '' E-mail to a friend .
Clinton begins talking about how others have criticized her , gets emotional . She was with mostly female voters in New Hampshire on a campaign stop . `` It 's not easy , '' she told them . I know that you are hurting and angry because of the way things were done during my administration.