[dhconnelly]

From the same link:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

[nicce]

Also considering the world situation, this might not be off-topic

[rvz]

So is that why it was flagged then?

It is off-topic. Unless the 'guidelines' are wrong?

[nicce]

You pasted the guidelines yourself. It includes the wording "most" and "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." In other words, it is not so straightforward. It is left for the judgment of moderator.

In this case, election had global consequences which goes beyond many things in the recent history. We can see posts about war regularly on here, which are not flagged. And the war is only about politics by definition.