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To: Red Steel

Reagan’s states were blue when he won in 1980. The networks later assigned Republicans the color red after it was found that blue was a more soothing color. A network anchor described the electoral map as a “sea of blue”.


70 posted on 11/02/2012 6:07:43 PM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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To: Defiant

Yup, I know the history.


71 posted on 11/02/2012 6:10:20 PM PDT by Red Steel
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