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>>chengm+(OP)
Hard call, but I think an occasional story related to politics may be ok if it is about some kind of major event that transcends politics-- just as a story about technology might occasionally appear in a magazine about politics if it is an important enough story.

>>pg+l
But let's remember that Obama hasn't won anything. It's important when the US elects a president, or one dies, etc.

Obama winning a primary is only important (outside of political circles) if a plane doesn't crash on the same day.

I think every non-hacker story should be evaluated by the "plane crash beating" quality. :-)

>>run4yo+D
I really don't care for news about crashing planes, unless they crash on my city. I hope to never read a plane crashing story on news.yc (which also implies I hope that there will never crash a plane on my city).

>>Tichy+21
My point is that a plane crash (killing hundreds) would be a top story around the world, even if it happened on the day Obama wins the Iowa primary, hence, Obama isn't plan crash important.

If he won the presidency, that would possibly be plane crash important.

>>run4yo+41
I suppose that win made top news in a lot of countries, though. It did in Germany, I know as much.

The news item was actually interesting for me, because it was the first time I watched a video of Obama. Also, I think he is under special scrutiny, and his speech seems to refer a lot to that, doesn't it? At least I thought the "change" meant that there might be a black president of the US after all?

Not trying to argue that it belongs on news.yc, but so far news.yc did a fine job filtering out the most interesting mainstream news (including the best xkcd cartoons, apparently).