Yes of course (quite rightly) there is no rule that posts here have to be chip related. Obviously, with an election 4 days away, there is far more NCR stuff than one would usually expect. Hopefully this dies away soon
While you could argue, as you usually do, that "You dont have to read every post", I will reply in advance that as a moderator I pretty much do have to read every post. At least most of you have an interest in 50% of the political posts.

As to the point of newbies etc. stumbling across the bb, and not wanting to block them out, I would say any newbie in the past month probably thinks this is a political bb and not a chip one anyway, so they wouldnt hang around.