This political room didnt used to exist.
YOU missed out on the elections............when hundreds of political threads were on main daily, and nothing else could stay on main for discussions, so the mods created this room.
and some of those heated political discussions turned into real 'cuss-ins' and for legal purposes had to be moved to obscure members only places. (When you see old posts with the old timers with a membership revoked, it was usually over ugly politics)
you can do a review, this isnt the only political sub, search and you will find there are about 3 subsections in the Politics Room