Breakfast Topic: Too much politics in your WoW?

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<div align="left">I am <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/10/22/azeroth-interrupted-escape-from-los-angeles/">on record in preferring no outside world topics</a> in my MMO chat and that particularly applies to politics, but what with a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/">major real world political event</a> happening today, politics have been a hot topic in Azeroth. Cinnabunz writes in that he's tired of politics taking over Trade Chat and I can totally empathize with him, even though the Trade Chat in my server has mostly been filled up with "I put my [insert link here] in your mom's [insert link here]" for the past couple of weeks. <br /><br />Last week, I got an invite from a complete stranger to a guild of <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/ron-paul/">Ron Paul supporters</a>. Regardless of my opinions as to who should be running the country, I don't want to deal with it in my favorite form of escape. But I know that many of you consider <em>WoW</em> part of your social circle and look forward to chatting about real world topics with your guildies and server-mates.<br /><br />So does political chat belong in Trade Chat? Does it ruin the immersion too much for you or do you feel that something this important <em>should</em> invade even the virtual world? How long do you think it will last after today?<br /></div>
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