Has it been much of a problem? I wouldn’t say I’ve personally seen many at all, at least not enough to consider it an issue anyway. Personally I’d be against such a restriction unless it was dominating all discussion on the community and crowding out other discussion.

I think with political literacy generally being pretty low in the majority of people and the impending American election, there will be people that feel like they have “stupid” questions, and they might not feel comfortable asking in one of the more general politics communities. It does no good to keep people in the dark, especially about politics which pretty much affects everything.

Then the mods would have the messy job of determining what constitutes “political” topics, where no one will draw the same lines as another. What is a fact of life for one person might be an incredibly political topic for another.