Quote (Pollster @ Oct 19 2016 02:30pm)
But this is where the context matters, and where people have gotten the election (and Clinton) so wrong: we're in the middle of a period when essentially all politicians are unpopular. Simply saying "candidate x is the most disliked candidate in recent history" doesn't mean anything on its own (outside of Trump, who really is setting a historic low), especially when that statement was also true four years earlier for Mitt Romney in late April 2012 when he finally emerged from the GOP primary. The public doesn't like anyone, so judging by that metric is nonsensical. There's nothing about Clinton that makes her notably unpopular relative to other national leaders that match her profile and name recognition. She doesn't have the favorability rating of Obama, who is the most-popular politician in the country, but the same is true of literally every other politician. Obama didn't have the favorability of Obama for much of his second term, he only reacquired it once focus moved onto his possible successors.
A net -9% favorability rating is not notably unpopular for this climate. The mistake people make is trying to compare her rating to previous politician's ratings without factoring in how much more unpopular today's politicians are.
That's such nonsense, Sanders and even Johnson and Stein had vastly highest likability ratings than Clinton or Trump, so no, it's not the climate, it's maybe that she's been the subject of scandal after scandal of corruption accusations more than almost any other politician, or that her demeanor is constantly described as cold and insincere.
To say Trump's rating is actually accurate but Clinton's isn't is just extreme bias.
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