Comment by pvnick

I agree with your sentiment for the most part, except to nit-pick and say that the guidelines prohibit "Most stories about politics," but, like you said and what I think I stated pretty well in my post is that this topic is particularly important to the HN crowd. In fact, I would even go so far as to say the whole thing is NOT political, insofar as the whole democrats-vs-republicans dichotomy is irrelevant to the discussion.