The AP's style guide insists that party ID should be provided when relevant. As it always is in politics.
So why is their editing of local stories chiefly concerned with removing valuable information from them?
Multiple Layers of Painstaking Editorial Blahbletty-Blah: Heh: NYT spoofed by fake email from "Mayor of France."
God, that Sarah Palin. So stupid to be taken in by a similar stunt.