Yeah, Like I said - I believe it was CBS originally that showed the election night map - they had all of the States that went for Ronaldus Magnus in blue.
The Dimwits scrambled for the next election - Gore v Bush - and made sure they got it changed.
the next election was Dukakis v Bush.
The Dimwits scrambled for the next election - Gore v Bush - and made sure they got it changed.
Gore v Bush was not exactly the "next election" after Reagan's landslide reelection. Between Reagan's thumping of Mondale in 1984, there was the election of GHW Bush over Dukakis in 1988 (because the nation figured out that "Dukakis" was Greek for "Mondale"), and then there was the Bush's loss to Bubba clinton in 1992. In 1988 the Bush map was also blue. In 1992, the Bush map was also blue. In 1996, when Bob "It's My Turn" Dole ran against Bubba, the color's switched to Blue for Bubba and Red for Dole. The explanation for the color switch was Blue for the incumbant party in the White House and Red for the challenging party. That color scheme would still apply in 2000 when W ran against algore. But then after the 2000 election, something changed and the colors were somehow identified as red state for republican and blue state for democrat. Whatever the reason for the change (perhaps it was related to the drive-by media desire to distance any red/communism connotations from the democrat socialist party) the color association no longer related to the incumbancy of the party in the White House, but it was the 2004 reelection of W over Tereza Heinz's husband when the change officially became red state republican vs blue state democrat socialists.