FWIW, my opinion still stands that this sort of stuff shouldn't appear on HN. It's certainly not what I look for in HN content, in any case. Coming up on the last 150 days of the election, I feel it's important not to let the HN waters get chummed with political troll-bait. Stories like "X campaign uses Y technology in a novel way" are HN-appropriate but "X candidate is a liar/hypocrite/jerk" stories are not. There is enough of an outlet for the latter type of stuff outside HN.
I typically skim through every headline posted on HN to see what I may be interested in reading. I can't say I've ever seen a "conservative x is lying" type of post. Perhaps I'm just oblivious, but I've certainly never seen it.
Granted, I wish we'd just avoid the subject of politics, especially when there is no tech reason for it, on hacker news.