[Attention Surplus Disorder]

No offense taken, none at all. For me: Not knowing (or wishing to store) the affiliation of every pol in every office in every state, though; Do you think that in an article of 3456 words; where “sort of obvious” things like
“innocent until proven guilty” and “suggested contributing to Friends of Blagojevich” and etc; and etc; they could throw in that one descriptive adjective....”democrat”?

[crusty old prospector]

Oh, it is an obvious omission of party affiliation. Personally, I think the comrades who write such articles leave it out on purpose just to irk conservatives. Then, they monitor blogs like Free Republic to see how mad we become. It is the only joy they get when writing an article that is bringing down a fellow liberal.