Ted Strickland on Lou Dobbs Last Night

Watching this interview of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight last night, I thought our governor acquitted himself well. Lou Dobbs seemed to be generally positive about the governor and about Ohio. And then I saw that the screen was referring to Gov. Strickland as (R-Ohio). Was Dobbs nice to Strickland because he thought he was a Republican? Or was the fact that Dobbs was nice to Strickland enough to make Dobbs' staff think he was a Republican? Interesting either way.