This is slightly off, but didn't they used to switch the state colors in elections like in '96 Dole was blue and Clinton was red etc, seems like we've really been stuck on the '00 election colors especially the media and thats how we're identifying them, will they ever change again?The colors never switched: blue always represented the incumbent and red always represented the challenger.
What switched was the party in office -- Gore was blue in 2000 because the Democrat party was incumbent as Clinton was the outgoing president.
But I still remember Reagan's re-election map.
Dennis Miller was reminiscing about the 1984 election and said, "I mean, Walter Mondale made George McGovern look like William the Conqueror."