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I think the extra "baggage" is partly due to how much experience she has, just being in politics means you accumulate things, do more things accumulate more criticism. Coach the most games ever and you accumulate the most losses as well as the most wins.

The question to me isn't if there's baggage, but if there's legitimate baggage. Sure 8 million hearings about Benghazi are baggage, but I'm not sure vexatious investigations are legitimate baggage. Self aggrandizing press conferences by the head of the FBI about an investigation is baggage, but not really legitimate baggage.

She looks average (in proportion) to me as most of the rest.

Obama managed two terms without any major scandal, he's probably pretty low in terms of perceived baggage, and it's not like he crushed Romney.

I'd lean more towards what New Era said, and I think Trump proves it out. Trump being clearly the worst human to ever have run for president, the most extreme candidate beyond what anyone could have imagined, if ever there was someone deserving of repudiation he's it. And people agree, polls show repeatedly that the majority of people strongly disagree with almost everything he says and stands for.

Yet here we are in the final week and the polls are tightening. Not because people are leaving Clinton due to her baggage (her #'s aren't really going down, the tightening is from Trump's #'s coming up). Not because people are protest voting (the polls don't support that narrative either). But because Republicans are coming home and voting for their party.

I don't know for sure and I hate making predictions, but if I was forced to choose if Clinton does win the post mortems will show a good portion of her margin will be due to the difference in the get-out-the-vote efforts by her out-performing the polls (EDIT: Or Trump under-performing).