Great info. But frustrating that the Red and Blue were switched.
Yeah, it is frustrating that they were switched back around 2000.
Dave Leip's Election Atlas does it the right way, although he feels the need to apologize for it. He doesn't use the media-mandated colors and instead uses the traditional ones. Sure it might take a few seconds for someone to wrap their brain around it, but he's got it right.
He stuck with the original scheme that had ben in use for years prior to about 2000. Speculation in years since has been that the networks didn’t want to associate the Democrats with red , which had meant communist