Political posts get flagged because they are explicitly against the purpose of the site. From the guidelines, for the benefit of the readers who haven't read th

Political posts get flagged because they are explicitly against the purpose of the site. From the guidelines, for the benefit of the readers who haven't read them: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Given that political stories get flagged fairly consistently, I would guess that the majority of readers here agree with that guideline.