[weegee]

HEY! That’s an unfair comparison. The Democrats FORMERLY were represented as Red states. The MSM decided in unison to change the color of Democrat victories to Blue and SUDDENLY decided in unison to call states “Red” or “Blue” for “Democrat” or “Republican”.

It’s not like Dean’s Democrats REALLY are “Reds”. No. Nothing like it at ALL. < /s >

[MrB]

That’s the very reason they stuck with the Red/Blue scheme of 2000. It got a little uncomfortable associating Democrats with Communist red.

It used to be that the INCUMBENT party was always represented by blue, and the challenger by red.

[PghBaldy]

I thought it was the tradition that the color referred to whether a candidate was incumbent party or not? Thereby, it would change back and forth.

[PghBaldy]

Year
Incumbent Party
Incumbent Color
Challenger Color

1976
Republican
Blue = Ford
Red = Carter
1980
Democratic
Red = Carter
Blue = Reagan
1984
Republican
Blue = Reagan
Red = Mondale
1988
Republican
Red = Bush
Blue = Dukakis
1992
Republican
Blue = Bush
Red = Clinton
1996
Democratic
Red = Clinton
Blue = Dole
2000
Democratic
Blue = Gore
Red = Bush
2004
Republican
Red = Bush
Blue = Kerry

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_11/005157.php