"DJ, you got the colors backwards. Remember, Red State/Blue State are now fixed terms, not colors that can be used indiscriminately."
This remains my single biggest pet peeve in the political world, and was the subject of my last entry on my blog 11 months ago: http://antiochagonistes.blogspot.com/
I have never been inconsistent in labelling Republican = Blue and Democrat = Red for over 20 years. It remains such an affront to common sense, reason, and history (and OUTSIDE the U.S., including Canada, still employ this proper color scheme, Tory/Conservative = Blue; Liberal/Labour = Red. Leftist Tories are called RED Tories) that it's as if not only the colors, but political labels were switched around, Liberal is now Conservative, Conservative is now Liberal, Republican is Democrat, Democrat is Republican.
I remain disgusted that we allowed the media to deliberately mislabel us, and will continue to fight for what is right and traditional, as per not only my own works, but also those of Dave Leip and Professor Kenneth Martis. If we allow them to label us in THEIR manner and choosing with this, they'll continue to do it in other ways, too, and I refuse to accept it, period. I will NEVER be anything but a Blue Conservative Republican, and better dead than a liberal RED.
To be honest, it's not something that bothers me. Most non-political Americans (most of the voting public) is unaware of these distinctions, so the media's color scheme (if it's intentional) has no effect on their voting behavior.
Amen.