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The guidance on What topics can I ask about here? reads:

Politics Stack Exchange is for objective questions about governments, policies and political processes.

 

It is not a place to advance opinions or debate, but rather for exchanging objective information about the policies, processes, and personalities that comprise the political arena. If you can't back it up, it's subjective.

Based on the above, questions such as

are and can only attract answers which are clearly opinion-based. None of the questions above can ever be addressed by providing an objective, fact-based or policy-based answer.

Yet they are answered and allowed.

Some other questions, however, are closed down.

Barring a double-standard bias being applied to Politics SE, what other reason is there for this discrepancy?

The guidance on What topics can I ask about here? reads:

Politics Stack Exchange is for objective questions about governments, policies and political processes.

 

It is not a place to advance opinions or debate, but rather for exchanging objective information about the policies, processes, and personalities that comprise the political arena. If you can't back it up, it's subjective.

Based on the above, questions such as

are and can only attract answers which are clearly opinion-based. None of the questions above can ever be addressed by providing an objective, fact-based or policy-based answer.

Yet they are answered and allowed.

Some other questions, however, are closed down.

Barring a double-standard bias being applied to Politics SE, what other reason is there for this discrepancy?

The guidance on What topics can I ask about here? reads:

Politics Stack Exchange is for objective questions about governments, policies and political processes.

It is not a place to advance opinions or debate, but rather for exchanging objective information about the policies, processes, and personalities that comprise the political arena. If you can't back it up, it's subjective.

Based on the above, questions such as

are and can only attract answers which are clearly opinion-based. None of the questions above can ever be addressed by providing an objective, fact-based or policy-based answer.

Yet they are answered and allowed.

Some other questions, however, are closed down.

Barring a double-standard bias being applied to Politics SE, what other reason is there for this discrepancy?

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Why are some questions which are clearly opinion-based allowed while others are not?

The guidance on What topics can I ask about here? reads:

Politics Stack Exchange is for objective questions about governments, policies and political processes.

It is not a place to advance opinions or debate, but rather for exchanging objective information about the policies, processes, and personalities that comprise the political arena. If you can't back it up, it's subjective.

Based on the above, questions such as

are and can only attract answers which are clearly opinion-based. None of the questions above can ever be addressed by providing an objective, fact-based or policy-based answer.

Yet they are answered and allowed.

Some other questions, however, are closed down.

Barring a double-standard bias being applied to Politics SE, what other reason is there for this discrepancy?