The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the ...

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With most states reliably red or blue, the path to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency runs through seven states where the contest is expected to be narrowly decided. Those are ...

But the polls show Bush and Kerry in a dead heat ... hatched the concept of dividing the nation into red states and blue states. “The red states are getting redder,” he said.

Optimally, the article also would have reminded Massachusetts voters about our own will having been subverted by our blue state’s legislators ... political parties show themselves to be ...

But as results poured in, the undeclared states changed color ... reported that year’s result with a map showing Bill Clinton as red and Dole as blue, while the Washington Post’s 2000 election ...

On that night in 1980, for instance, ABC was the outlier, showing ... electoral maps, like Scribner’s 1883 Statistical Atlas of the United States, used a red-for-Democrat, blue-for-Republican ...