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While this is awesome, this is covered on the TV News, so it does fall within what the rules consider off-topic. But threads like this have come up rarely enough (one previous Obama thread?), that the rules can be broken.

Go Obama.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Though I guess Obama is kind of an interesting new phenomenon, but probably not new to anyone here.

>>rms+(OP)
Yeah...however, the outcome of the presidential election would deserve to be on the front page.

>>rms+(OP)
Well, if we need to tweak it for more relevancy, I'd be interested to hear any strong public speakers pick apart what makes him such a good speaker.

>>helvet+8
Agreed... but I don't make the rules. Do your worst, editors.

>>helvet+8
But this isn't the outcome of a presidential election. And anyways, why should the outcome of the presidential election be on HN? Its not especially relevant to hackers, and I'm quite certain people will see the news elsewhere - it usually gets a lot of coverage.

>>helvet+8
No. That will be on every news source.

>>breily+h
I think it is relevant to hackers. It might not be hacker-specific, but it significantly affects all kinds of things, many IP related.

>>helvet+L
You could say that about basically any politics story - the point is that when politics are involved, discussions like this one happen. Politics has made Reddit's frontpage basically unreadable to me, and I would hate to see that happen here.

>>rms+(OP)
maybe the moderators are off on a honeymoon, or something?

>>helvet+L
It's not more relevant to hackers than other people. It's very relevant to hackers, miners, accountants, lawyers and everyone else. That's a good sign that it's not "hacker news". The key factor is relative importance, not absolute importance.

>>breily+21
All I'm saying is the outcome of a presidential election is a legitimate exception to the politics rule. The rest, sure, it's irrelevant to hacker news. I stand by my downvoted opinions.

>>helvet+aa
I think in an idealized HN, even the outcome of the Presidential Election wouldn't get upvoted, although I'm sure that in the real HN it probably will.