This "holding one's nose" stuff is becoming a cliché. The stench Americans smell is themselves. American society stinks because it has never reconciled and made reparations for its racist past because mainstream white Americans are feeble-minded, obedient consumers and not much else. 
The stench too comes from the corruption of Americans ignoring the fanaticism and terrorism of far-Right racists and misogynists, abdicating power to them in the guise of protecting religion.
Hillary Clinton is better than most Americans because she's a fighter, an intellectual workhorse, she knows her enemies and generally takes no prisoners. It's more than you can say about Obama who was always capitulating to his enemies, treating them like friends when they were calling him "nigger." Obama preferred not to get his hands dirty and so accomplished less than he could have. 
The reality is that American men are psychologically uncomfortable with the idea of a woman in power. Medusa is laughing.