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This thread explains the rationale: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3sure8/introducing_rpoliticalvideo/
The end result of this was that all videos that had even a slight connection to politics were removed, and the politicalvideo subreddit never took off.
This makes sense... Allowing political videos invites people with agendas to abuse the ranking system to push that agenda. It could overshadow the promise of a community for cool videos on the internet.