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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a during a round table event to launch the "Talking is Teaching: Talk Read Sing" campaign at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute on July 23, 2014 in Oakland, California. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tends to be much more popular when she's out of politics rather than in the thick of it, a new poll finds.

The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Tuesday found that 43 percent of registered voters say they have a positive view of Clinton, a sharp drop from her approval rating of 59 percent in February 2009 when she had just been named President Obama's secretary of state. Forty-one percent of registered voters said in the most recent poll that they view Clinton negatively, compared with just 22 percent in 2009.

Polling from the same outlets has shown that Clinton's favorability remained over 50 percent during her entire tenure at the State Department and began their serious decline after she left office in the beginning of 2013.

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Other politicians have not seen the same trend. Two former presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both saw their approval ratings rise once they left office. The difference, of course, is that Hillary Clinton's political life is not over as she is thinking about running for president again.

Her approval rating is especially precarious among Republicans. Although roughly a quarter of registered GOP voters said they viewed Clinton positively in 2009, that number fell to just 14 percent in the latest poll. Her negative ratings also jumped from 52 percent in 2009 to 70 percent this month among Republicans.

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Hillary Clinton's poll numbers are better when she's out of politics