A year and a half ago I was pretty skeptical about Hillary Clinton.

We really needed a progressive candidate.

And then - pure, unadulterated Hillary Hate.

I reassessed Hillary, and concluded she is actually a progressive liberal Democrat, and I had fallen for the S.F.!

I'm good now, and looking forward to another revolutionary Democratic election of the first female President of the United States!

and this seems to be the consensus. Clinton will make a Great P.O.T.U.S. and will actually get things done in the face of adversity. She has already run and is still running the political gauntlet both as a dedicated Democrat and as a woman. This makes her a POWERFUL political force.

As a possible explanation for your S.F. factor hypothesis, I believe Mr. Clinton got his highest approval ratings in the middle of the impeachment embarrassment. I had been following the Whitewater "scandal" reports for years by then, and was convinced, with Gene Lyons' help, that the whole thing was created by the media, sustained by the media, and did no one any good, especially the media. But I was sort of a wonk on the subject, and many others were too busy living their lives to figure out what the scandal was about. Until 1998. It was then that the lady I usually rode on the bus with turned and asked me "Are they ever going to let up on the president?", meaning, I think, that lots of people had noticed that the president couldn't do anything right in the eyes of the Times, the Washington Post, the WSJ, or any other legitimate news outlet. My fellow countrymen and women were catching up, if they needed to. My reply to her was, "No, they can't afford to." And so, I think that throughout the 1990's, many, many Americans decided the president was getting a raw deal from the press. They were right.

In 2016, we see that Clinton Derangement Syndrome is alive and thriving. Email, forsooth. And it's dribbling email, too. This "story" broke in the NYTimes in March 2015, was wrong then, is still wrong, but the die-hard anti-Clintonians will lap up every drop of non-information. So, perhaps the S.F. factor is composed of people who have a strong sense of fairness, and recognize yet another Clinton who can do no right in the eyes of the press. And they are finding their way to the caucus locations, and will find their way to voting booths. I salute their principles and persistence.

Yes every time I hear people calling her a liar I just get stronger in my conviction b/c I know how easy it has been to start rumors about her and her husband since the moment they appeared in our lives.

Now I especially hate when the media keep asking her or her supporters about the honesty issues they say she has. Even today when they were interviewing her about her win in Iowa they felt a need to ask her about the liar label. Just infuriating!

I like, respect and admire HRC and believe she is one of the more qualified candidates we've had in a long while. It is exciting and am doubling down in my support of her!!

At that time (whenever she is attacked with previously addressed and discredited smears) she becomes both a victim and a survivor.