*****This is a very time-consuming process, since I don't have the know-how to automate this, but on the A's alone, just de-wikilinking the Republican and Democratic parties cut out nearly 9,000 bytes, over 1/4 of the bytes for the A's.  I would start with just those two parties for right now, since they constitute the vast majority of the party wikilinks, and revisit the other parties once those two are taken care of.