Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir may be at the top of the best-seller lists, but her favourability ratings are at an all-time low. Recent polling has her at 40 per cent – tied with Donald Trump, the least popular President in recent memory.

As Ms Clinton’s former competitor, Senator Bernie Sanders, put it recently: “Look, Secretary Clinton ran against the most unpopular candidate in the history of this country, and she lost.”

Many have ascribed Ms Clinton’s unpopularity to outside forces: sexism, Russian hacking, and undue focus on her private email server scandal. In her memoir, she discusses each of these at length.

But no campaign is perfect, and even Ms Clinton’s most die-hard supporters must be able to identify some things she did wrong – Right?

To find out, we stopped by the first event of Ms Clinton’s book tour and asked attendees: “What was Hillary Clinton’s biggest campaign mistake?”

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Laura Antoniou, 54

(Emily Shugerman (Emily Shugerman)

“I think the biggest mistake in the campaign might have been that she trusted Bernie Sanders too much. And I’m really, really disappointed in Bernie, who I would've supported as President, and whose liberal goals I am almost 99 per cent behind … The nine out of 10 Bernie Sanders supporters who did say that they came out and voted for her – that did not erase eight months of toxic language about her.”

Pura Molina, 64

Pura Molina wears her barong tagalog to meet Ms Clinton (Emily Shugerman)

“I think it was a perfect campaign. Her personality is her personality, you cannot change that. You can’t say, ‘Oh I wish that she was like Bill or Obama. It’s not her fault, and I accepted that.”

Melissa Noris, 23

(Emily Shugerman (Emily Shugerman)

“I think that there were states that she should have probably visited. And she ran a very clean campaign against an opponent who was not clean – including Bernie Sanders, who got dirty and got negative way faster than he should have, and stayed negative way longer than he should have.”

Nicole Rubin

(Emily Shugerman (Emily Shugerman)

“Obviously she didn’t connect to certain people. She connected to me, but I’m a young white woman in New York trying to go to law school. That doesn’t represent a lot of the country. And while, like I said, I don’t understand why [people voted for Donald Trump,] she didn’t either, and I think that’s where she made the mistake.”

Linda Lewis, 70

(Emily Shugerman (Emily Shugerman)

“She took too much for granted; I think that was her big mistake. You have to go to every state and speak to the people. I looked at a programme on CNN with Van Jones Called “The Messy Truth,” and he interviewed people in Kentucky to find out why they voted for Trump. And they said: ‘Look, I voted for Obama the last two elections. Even if he couldn't get here, he sent his people here. And she just blew us off.’ A lot of people may have felt that way.”

Jean Moore, 70

(Emily Shugerman (Emily Shugerman)

“I don’t think she made a mistake. I think a lot of men were against her, and they’ve been bad mouthing her for 25 years. And she, in my opinion, hasn’t done any of the things they’ve accused her of.”

Julie Simeone, 36

(Emily Shugerman (Emily Shugerman)

“There were probably some mistakes made in the final days of the campaign as to where she decided to have a rally or, for example, go campaign for other politicians who were running, as opposed to solely focusing on her campaign. But I think those are probably more nit-picky than anything that would likely have changed the election.”

Brandon Powell, 24

(Emily Shugerman (Emily Shugerman)

“I don’t think she really did make a mistake. It’s just that things went out of hand, out of her control ... But I don’t think she did anything wrong. I think it’s just the times, and just the climate. People were tired of the last eight years – certain types of people were tired. And they came out in droves and they voted, and they made the difference.”

John Eubanks, 31

John Eubanks waits in line with his dog, Harley Quinn (Emily Shugerman)