[dowcaet]

I remember the networks used to give the Republicans blue and Democrats red on their maps on their election night coverage until 1992 I believe. I think the color red and its connection to communism were being associated with the Democrats by many American voters. I’m guessing that’s why their media propagandists switched the colors!

[Alberta's Child]

Go back and look at the old TV coverage of those elections. There was generally no consistency in the Democrat-Republican color scheme from one election to the next — or even from one network to another.

It all changed in 2000 when it took weeks and weeks to finalize the election results — so the color-coded maps stayed around on TV news programs seemingly forever.

[fieldmarshaldj]

2000 was when the media officially switched the party colors. That the GOP never fought that deliberate mislabeling was, and remains, appalling. I never use it. Red is the historical and international color of totalitarian Socialism/Communism. Blue is the color of Conservatism.