From the November 8 edition of CNN's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello:
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CAROL COSTELLO (HOST) I think that if Hillary Clinton does win though that that historic moment for her will be diminished because of the nastiness of this campaign and her unlikeability factor, right?
RYAN LIZZA: Yeah. Look, it's very hard to be in politics as long as Hillary Clinton has been in politics on the national stage and keep popularity. I mean just aside from anything you can blame on her personally about why people might not like her, support her, why her approval ratings might not be that high. Anyone in national public life right now has low approval ratings with a few exceptions. Obama's a big exception, but most of the congressional leaders have single digit approval ratings, right? Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the first two presidential nominees whose approval rating is as the pollsters say underwater, more people disapprove of them than approve of them. So whoever wins we're going to have our first president-elect who goes into their inaugural -- now maybe it'll change in this, in the brief period between Election Day and the inauguration, but they're going to start in a bit of a hole. And you're right, that does take away a little bit from the historic nature of her election if she wins today. She's been around a long time.
