there may be a way. There’s some kind of political filter (look it up) you can try. It may block posts praising Obama etc but then again you wind up losing all political posts.
You can
—skip over them
—”hide” the post
—defriend them
You may miss out on things like pictures of your relatives if you defriend them for their politics. Nice pictures of your cousin’s new baby, etc. wouldn’t be seen because they support Obama...
‘skip’ the political posts
‘hide’ them (hit the button, post disappears)
Or
defriend them (all their posts disappear.)
I didn't mention in my post above that I sometimes "lurk" on FB via my husband's dormant FB page... he is OK with that, btw! I never post on his account... as it is not MY account.
He joined FB during the 2010 campaigns to read posts by one particular local conservative political friend. Hubby hasn't looked at his account in over a year and a half, but back when he joined, he asked me to figure out how to hide certain posts, ie silly stuff (games, silly chit chat, etc.) by some family members - it was cluttering up his "feed" or "wall" or whatever it's called.
Luckily I do check his account once in awhile... you never know what photos will be "tagged" into/onto your FB account by other Friends. I've had to remove a few.
I've been in a quandry whether or not to join FB myself. I spend way too much time on FR to also have time for FB! ;-)