You may be familiar with the good work of the Sunlight Foundation .  Among other things, they make it possible for us to have the Uppity Wisconsin Legislator Directory. 

They just launched a new site that tracks parties -- yes, that's right, parties.  At first I thought that was a little odd - though useful because one of the things they track are the parties at the Democratic Convention, where I'm heading in a few days.

But the point is - they're trying to document the continual gravy train of political parties.  It's an interesting site that just launched today, and lets you search the party database in multiple ways.  Unfortunately, searching by brands of beer served is not one of the choices for some inxplicable reason.  Still ---