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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+(OP)
I would vote -1 on it too. There are 50 primaries and winners from both parties in each one, for a total of 100 victories. Sure, of course this one is more important, but still, you have to put it perspective (Bhutto's assassination wasn't mentioned here, for instance, and that was a pretty important event). I'm very wary of politics rearing their ugly head on this site. I'm sure we all have an interest and opinion in them, but I think that discussions about politics are only likely to damage this community.

>>run4yo+(OP)
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+p
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+r
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).