Party in the WH

With nearly 8,000 noncareer political jobs to fill, President-elect Obama says, he doesn't care about party affiliation.
Well, according to Politico, the online applciation is complete with the question, what party are you affiliated with?
Seems suspect, huh.
The site where the application is hosted reads,

“We ask this for reporting purposes and because some appointments require bipartisan representation,”

Perhaps...
So far there have been over 300,000 applicants, but experts say they will probably get passed over:

“Recommendations are coming from state party chairs and county party chairs and the truth of the matter is: they pick people out of those who supported them, who worked for them,” he said. Obama “was the Democratic candidate for president, so most of the people he appoints are going to be Democrats.”