I guess it seems odd to say that it's CP if the system is in an inconsistent state during a partition. What I'm getting at is that as users of the system, we are not happy to accept work until we have evidence that the work is verified by multiple different nodes of the system. While one node might accept transactions, as clients, we ourselves only "accept" those transactions once we observe that the system as a whole is consistent. Since the system does not "do work" for us while there is a partition, I'm saying that it's more CP than AP.