Wal-Mart Goes Left: Why Is It Pandering To Blue State America?

Capital Research Center ^ | August 2007 | Kirk MacDonald

[I still care]

I’m going to pull out my conspiracy theory and tinfoil hat and say the MSM delibrately manipulated the color change, because they were stung too many times by people making the comparison between the “red” democrats and communism.

[metmom]

Makes sense.

[Mr. Mojo]

Yes. Always. Reagan was blue in '80, and he was the challenger. Dole was blue in '96, and he was the challenger as well. Nixon blue in '68 -- challenger. Prior to 2000 the GOP was always blue regardless of which party was the incumbant.

[cripplecreek]

No kidding, look at my “blue state” of Michigan. The GOP in their vast wisdom seem to have written us off as unwinnable.

[Dumb_Ox]

The left has realized that corporate America makes a formidable political ally and agent of social change, so it’s an extension of the Long March through the institutions. Big business needs to influence regulations to hamstring smaller competition and to subsidize its own operating costs. It’s a symbiosis of parasites.

[mnehring]

Let's correct your post..

The left has realized that blackmailed corporate America makes into a formidable political ally and agent of social change

[DJ MacWoW]

I agree with that. Sam Walton must be spinning like a top.

[Ben Ficklin]

Historically, use of the red and blue colors to designate how a state "went" in the election was alternated each election.

When conservatives added significance to this color designation due to the 2000 election, that stopped.

[Mr. Mojo]

Nope. The GOP nominee was designated in blue in every election (prior to 2000) dating back decades.

[Domandred]

I like Red too. It’s the first color in “Red, White, and Blue”.

[JZelle]

Thanks. I’m just looking for any hope that a Hillary or Obama presidency won’t actually happen.

[boop]

"When you take all the bad press against Walmart, it adds up to a political shakedown. Once Walmart begins donating to the left, the retoric stops, just like it did with Microsoft"

Yep, it's exactly like paying "protection" money to the Mob.

[Ben Ficklin]

Blue State-Red State

[Cold Heart]

Disneyfication of Wal Mart

[Mr. Mojo]

According to that link the alternating system has been used since 1976, when in incumbent Ford was blue and the challenger Carter was red.

Ok, let's do some alternating. In '80 the incumbent party supposedly switched to red, so Carter was red and Reagan blue. Again, the GOP in blue. In '84 the incumbent party supposedly switched back to blue, so Reagan would be blue again.

The GOP=blue / Dem=red should've broken down in '88 when, according to your link, the incumbent party would switch to red again. Problem is that in that election the incumbent GHWB was blue and his challenger Dukakis red. So the GOP=blue designation continued unabated, as I originally stated.

[Ben Ficklin]

As your source(and others) point out, Clinton/dems were red in 92 and 96.

And as my source points out, GOP should be blue in 08.

[Mr. Mojo]

No, your source stated that the whole system was trashed in 2000 and that forever after the Dems would be designated in blue and the GOP red. (Which is true). But what's false is their assertion that there was an alernating system in place from '76 - '00. It's false, as I mentioned, because in the 1988 the GOP should've been red. ...which they weren't, as the map I posted plainly shows.

My original point stands: prior to 2000 the GOP was always blue. .....at least back to the late 60s. (Not sure about before then).

[Theodore R.]

There are just too many liberals in Detroit to make MI competitive.

[Ben Ficklin]

I think the part you are missing is that there are two variables.

As for whether the method will be followed in 08, who knows. A lot of GOP rednecks like the red designation.

If it is a real, real big problem, the "true conservative" base could agitate for Bush to appoint a bipartisan commission to recommend a procedure/method to be used into eternity. Can you imagine all the fireworks that would create when Congress tried to legislate and act?