Yeah, same! I think you can be civil with handful of people when it comes to politic, but trying discuss it with larger population, yeah, it not going work.
There is a local forum for my town (I'm sure there is one for your town as well) and I was bored one day decided check it out. Basically any topic can go, talk politic, religious, anything. The problem I have with political discussion on that site, is that they are so far off and it not even funny. They try post discussions about an issue using numbers and none of the numbers made mathematically sense, and they all believed it. : :-X Needless to say, I quit going to the site, and every time I ride around town, I feel like I'm the smartest guy in town. ;D ;D