The Deborah Jeane Palfrey client list doesn’t just promise to be an equal opportunity scandal, it also offers us a great little controlled experiment.

She turned over her phone records to ABC News. They have been diligently going over them, uncovering names. ABC News is going to tell all on May 4, on 20/20. Assuming there’s no intrinsic bias on the part of ABC News, let’s look at how many Republicans are outed, and how many Democrats.

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable way to judge whether there’s any truth to the belief, universal among liberal blogs, that Republicans are intrinsically sleazier and more criminal than Democrats.