I took the above content to mean that a Democratic president would already have ties to the Whitehouse, and maybe be familiar w/the tool already, hence more comfortable with it and willing to keep using. It didn't read to me like an ideological motivation. Rather it's like when companies get a new CEO they come in and change everything and move the company headquarters to be closer to their house. Or when many programmers first start working with a new codebase. "What the hell? That last guy had no idea what he was doing!"