Americans are no more likely to view Hillary Clinton favorably than they were before last year’s presidential election, according to a recently released Gallup poll:

Over the past quarter century, the favorable ratings of losing presidential candidates generally have increased after the election — some in the immediate aftermath and others in the months that followed. With the exception of John Kerry, for whom there are no comparable data, 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.

While some increases have been modest, such as Mitt Romney’s and Bob Dole’s four-point improvements, others have been much larger, such as George H.W. Bush’s 16-point and John McCain’s 14-point gains in favorability.

But for Clinton, this has not been the case. Seven months after her failed bid for the presidency, she remains as unpopular now as she was then.

Forty-one percent have a favorable view of the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, within the 41 percent to 43 percent range Gallup has recorded since November.

Clinton continues to blame Russian intervention, problems within the Democratic Party and even sexism for her 2016 defeat. But history shows that most candidates recover from the negativity blitz of a campaign. Not Mrs. Clinton.

Why not? The Gallup numbers illustrate a point made in the new book, “Fixing Post-Truth Politics,” outlining why both Mrs. Clinton and Donald Trump were “completely unsuitable” candidates for president:

… in terms of personal integrity, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represented an all-time low in the quality of candidates presented to the U.S. electorate. One option was a person who knowingly accepted donations to her personal family foundation from figures of international influence in exchange for the opportunity to meet with, and hopefully influence decisions by, the U.S. Secretary of State. “Pay for play” was the term given to the practice, but a more accurate term is bribery.

The money then benefitted Hillary Clinton and her family directly. According to emails revealed by the WikiLeaks organization, the allegedly charitable Clinton Foundation paid for the multi-million-dollar wedding of Chelsea Clinton, and paid her living expenses for many years.

Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State who thought it would be okay to run classified emails through a personal email server because it was more convenient for her personally. She also revealed that she viewed approximately half of the electorate as a “basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.” (Technically, it was about a quarter of the electorate, because she said that half of Trump supporters belonged in that basket. But all Trump supporters certainly believed she was talking to them personally.)

These are just a few of the numerous reasons voters continue to dislike Clinton. Others include the many falsehoods told during last year’s campaign (compiled by Independent Journal Review):

• “I am the only candidate who ran in either the Democratic or Republican primary who said from the very beginning (that) I will not raise taxes on the middle class.”

• “Back in the Great Recession, when millions of jobs across America hung in the balance, Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much.”

• “[FBI Director] Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people.”

• “I was gone [when Obama drew the red line in Syria.]”

• “I’m the only candidate in the Democratic primary, or actually on either side, who Wall Street financiers and hedge fund managers are actually running ads against.”

• “The only two (Donald Trump tax returns) we have show that he hasn’t paid a penny in taxes.”

• “We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent.”

• “[Donald Trump] wants us to pull out of NATO.”

• “[Donald Trump] doesn’t make a thing in America.”

• “I do think there is an agenda out there, supported by my opponent, to [privatize the VA].”

• “Mike Pence slashed education funding in Indiana.”

• “Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.”

• “[My personal email server] was allowed.”

• “[Donald Trump] has been talking about the option of using a nuclear weapon against our Western European allies.”

• “I don’t think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ad ever run against him.”

• “Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support.”

• “If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena.”

• “You are three times more likely to be able to get a mortgage if you’re a white applicant than if you’re black or Hispanic, even if you have the same credentials.”

• “We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.”

• “What I have put forward does not add a penny to the debt.”

• “Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one.”

• “Donald Trump says he’d deport 16 million people.”

• “I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS.”

• “Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced had a Republican co-sponsor.”

• “We now have driven (health care) costs down to the lowest they’ve been in 50 years.”

• “[The gun industry is] the only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability.”

• “Not one of the 17 GOP candidates has discussed how they’d address the rising cost of college.”

• “Hedge fund managers themselves make more and pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers.”

• “All my grandparents, you know, [immigrated] over here.”

Read much more about why both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were completely unsuitable candidates for president, and how the Democratic and Republican parties reached the depths of nominating these two, in “Fixing Post-Truth Politics,” available through Amazon and for Kindle.