If it were up to me, being happy with, or aghast at, something reported by the press would be okay, so long as your point wasn't to promote your party's role in positive events, or your opposition party's role in negative events.
Explanations for or against a political position ought to be verboten; just because no one listens to one of us on bigger forums isn't a good enough reason to allow one of us to spout off for or against a politician or politics in general.
This board is basically about exmormons and our supporters to mouth off about mormonism and its supporters.
Peculiar people that we are, there are lots of things to go OT about, but having a rule that politics and politicians can't be one of them suits me just fine.
That's my view on the subject...
Granted, I've learned a lot about "The World" by reading orderly exchanges of ideas and concepts, in first-person contexts, i.e. "this author says this, which contrasts with this author, and seemingly blah, blah, blah..."
But I loathe having someone copy & paste a point of view, and just leave it sitting here, apparently assuming we've now been properly educated and need to respond by agreeing and being thankful.