A History Lesson in 'Name That Party'

ABC's "Political Sex Scandals Redux" popup slideshow <http://a.abcnews.com/Politics/Blotter/popup?id=2841254> has a series of 13 slides relating to current and past politicians.

If Republicans are or were involved, the network, with one rare and minor exception, consistently applies the "R" label almost immediately. With Democrats, with one very old exception, the party label isn't there. Here are the specifics... [follow link - snip]

This is all in our minds, huh, MSM? It's all accidental, right?

Then why does it keep happening, and why do you stubbornly refuse to make a simple style guide change -- requiring the party ID of any and all politicians caught in scandals upon first mention, in the first paragraph?

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