Take a look at the graph to the right. It charts Hillary Clinton’s approval rating by time period. There’s some pretty interesting discrepancies there. There’s nearly a perfect correlation over a 20 year time period between her approval ratings in office, and while seeking an office. She’s immensely popular IN office, and decidedly less popular when seeking a new office. In fact, her approval ratings in office are some of the highest in history. For anything. Quartz wrote about this earlier this year.
It’s hard to remember these days, but just a few years ago, everybody loved Hillary Rodham Clinton. When she stepped down as US secretary of state in January 2013 after four years in office, her approval rating stood at what the Wall Street Journal described as an “eye-popping” 69%. That made her not only the most popular politician in the country, but the second-most popular secretary of state since 1948.
-Sady Doyle, Quartz, February 25, 2016
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This is a fairly well documented phenomenon for women in politics and business. America likes them when they aren’t asking for a seat at the next Boy’s Table. But once they finally get to the table and get to work, they suddenly become popular again. Amazing.
When chatter first started about Hillary Clinton seeking our party’s nomination back in 2014, she was one of the most popular politicians in America.