I liked your post because it tried to correct the OP with facts without being negative or overreaching. I have had problems with Hillary and emails while not believing it was a death penalty criminal offense.
In general, the email issue is strange because this is one of the weirdest election seasons because the two major party candidates have such high negative ratings.
On the democratic side, posts like the OP are trying to change the likeability/favorability of Hillary which is an understandable political move. Most of campaigning is trying to increase your opponents negatives or increase your own positives.
Not much more has to be said about Trump. He is hopeless. His negatives are there for a reason and right now it looks like he will lose which is great.
In this particular election, what is unique on the democratic side, is that there is a segment of the party that is not particularly enamored of Hillary and think she is part of the problem with American society and not a solution but will vote for her. It is this fact that seems to be ignored most on this site by posts like the OP. There are a lot of posts trying to make people like her or which try to attack or invalidate reasons why many democrats will vote for her but do not consider her a good candidate for the future of the country although much better than Trump.
However, because of rules on this site and because we are not in the primaries, I do not see many posts from this group. Some have probably moved on and some, like me, do not really see a reason to post anymore. I am going to vote for her but do not really have anything to express or a reason to express it since the primaries are over and the US system unfortunately is restricted to 2 parties. I believe polls show there are a substantial number of democratic party voters who have similar feelings.
Contrary to what the OP is addressing, I do not see many or any posts that attack Hillary on emails now. In fact Hillary email issues are almost always brought up from deep supporters of Hillary like this OP where a Hillary proponent brings up the emails to convince the group who will vote for her that they should not just vote for Hillary but love Hillary like they do.
Its understandable but seems to invalidate DU as a dynamic discussion site which is the reason I have read DU for years. We have discussions that make assertions to support points that are not true because it would be better for Hillary if true such as presenting an argument that Democrats were not outraged by GOP hidden government and do not think we should have supported and voted for a candidate in the primary who has a history of lack of transparency. I think long term it would lead to a better election process a more honest appraisal/support for Hillary's presidency when she gets in and perhaps. Perhaps, more importantly for a discussion site, it might lead to more truthful discussions and a more dynamic DU.
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