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The Red States? Who choses the colors and why.
United Press International ^
| March 22, 2002
| Peter Roff
Posted on 03/25/2002 6:28:12 AM PST by PDR
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Just something to think about...
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posted on
03/25/2002 6:28:12 AM PST
by
PDR
To: PDR
In US military mapping, the US side is shown in blue: the opposing forces in red. I think General Walker, a Birch Society member, got in trouble for his "pro-blue" ideological training program back in the '60s.
BTW, I may be misremembering, but I think that in some previous TV election coverage, the GOP was shown in Blue and the Dems in Red. Maybe the 2000 coloring was just an effort at rotation?
To: PDR
Red = red-blooded American.;^)
To: PDR
It is something I HAVE thought about. I decided a long time ago that the networks were uncomfortable with using red to denote Democrats because of the association of that color with communism and socialism. It is just a little too close to the truth, and makes them uneasy.
To: PDR
I could be wrong, but I belive the party in the White House gets blue on election night and the opposition gets red.
If this is the case, in 2004 Bush states will be blue.
To: PDR
But, as John Morgan, one of America's leading electoral demographers says, they have it backwards.
This would be the same John Morgan who predicted, based on his demography talents, that Bush would beat Clinton and then that Dole would beat Clinton.
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posted on
03/25/2002 6:39:56 AM PST
by
drjimmy
To: drjimmy
Morgan predicted that, in a head-to-head, Bush would be Clinton but that with Perot in he mix, Bush would likely lose. And Morgan never predicted the Dole would beat Clinton.
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posted on
03/25/2002 6:42:37 AM PST
by
PDR
To: Phantom Lord
You're correct.
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posted on
03/25/2002 6:42:53 AM PST
by
jpl
To: PDR
I never bought off on the Red for Republicans B.S. To me Socialism is as Red as Communism. The Democrats should wear it with pride.
Freepers too easily bought off on the Red, IMO. We have to learn to call the ba--ards on every piece of tripe they seek to pass off.
To: San Jacinto
I agree with you, so that means I believe your answer is right! On the other hand, there are three colors in the American flag. If red is a problem, why didn't someone choose white, the alternate color? Blue and white works for me.
To: PDR
This is from an online column by Arianna Huffington from April 29, 1996:
While Democrats have the polls on their side, Republicans have found a star demographer, John Morgan, who predicts a Dole win and a Republican gain of 15 to 18 seats in the House and three to four in the Senate. He is almost invariably introduced with the awe-inspiring comment that in 1994 he predicted Republicans would win 52 seats. And they did. No one mentions that in 1992 he predicted with equal certainty a Bush victory. Mark Lubbers, who runs Anthem, a Fortune 500 health-care management company, remembers Morgan speaking to its top 100 executives back then: "He came to our headquarters in Indianapolis," he told me, "and assured us that the president would be comfortably re-elected."
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03/25/2002 6:47:33 AM PST
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drjimmy
To: BohDaThone
Yes, I remember a quote the night either Reagan or Nixon won - "The map is starting to look like a Republican swimming pool". I can't remember which anchor said it.
To: PDR
I am not sure this matters very much. I noticed some years back that the Republican Women's Clubs and the Republican women in Congress seem to have adopted red as their color.
To: BohDaThone
"BTW, I may be misremembering, but I think that in some previous TV election coverage, the GOP was shown in Blue and the Dems in Red."Not mis-remembering at all; I recall the same.
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03/25/2002 6:51:55 AM PST
by
Redbob
To: PDR
Interestingly, the countries that made up the British Empire were shown as red on British maps. It took me a while to realize that this was what characters in pre-1940 English novels were talking about, and not the spread of communism.
To: Bernard Marx
because white doesn't look like anything-it doesn't stand out. There is nothing wrong with red. It's a beautiful color and part of the American flag.
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03/25/2002 6:55:30 AM PST
by
arielb
To: Redbob
i think the colors changed in the early hours of nov.8 2000.
To: drjimmy
Nonsense... you cannot believe most of what AH writes... and as to Bush v. Clinton, it depends on when Morgan made the remarks -- was Perot in the race at the time he said it or not.
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03/25/2002 6:59:48 AM PST
by
PDR
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To: San Jacinto
I decided a long time ago that the networks were uncomfortable with using red to denote Democrats because of the association of that color with communism and socialism. It is just a little too close to the truth, and makes them uneasy. But, it's all right to make you and me uncomfortable. Then they wonder why we don't watch them?
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03/25/2002 7:03:50 AM PST
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Slyfox
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