Alissa Stechschulte reports for the Daily Caller that the Democrats’ last presidential candidate hasn’t won many new fans since her 2016 election loss.
Losing presidential candidates over the past quarter century have tended to become more popular in the months following the election. But former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has broken that trend, according to Gallup.
The latest Gallup poll reveals that a majority of Americans, 57 percent, continue to view Secretary Clinton unfavorably. There has been no change in this percentage since January 2017.
Clinton’s favorable rating hit an all-time low, 38 percent, early September last year. The highest it has ever been was 67 percent, which was in 1998 when she was first lady.
In 2011 and 2012, during her time serving as secretary of state, she received a 66 percent favorability rating.
But as for her current favorability rating, Gallup has yet to see any of the typical improvements for the two-time losing presidential candidate.
“Losing presidential candidates since 1992 have experienced a boost of at least four percentage points in favorability when averaging their ratings from the day after the election through the following June,” Gallup found. …
… The research pointed out that many of Secretary Clinton’s appearances since the election have not been well received by the public, which has “viewed her comments as shirking blame for her loss.”
