Again, I'm not saying I agree with Comey, but he was in a very difficult position. If he withheld the announcement until after the election and it turned out there was a legitimate smoking gun in the emails, he would have appeared to have tried to influence the election in Hillary's favor.

Frankly, I think this close to an election as contentious as this one, a lot of people are just too invested in one side or the other to be objective. Passions are running too high on all sides and it'll take some time to sort all this out.

At the end of the day we might well decide that James Comey did precisely the wrong thing. But, based on what is known right now, I think a reasonable person can reach the conclusion that his actions were not partisan.