Citation needed, indeed. IIRC, it was USA Today's infamous county-by-county map that flipped the colors.
Posted on 12/02/2009 6:04:44 PM PST by BunnySlippers
TEGUCIGALPA — A majority in the Honduran Congress have voted against reinstating deposed President Manuel Zelaya and allowing him to finish out his term of office.
A simple majority of 65 lawmakers in the 128-member body voted against Zelaya's return to the presidency shortly before 730 pm (0130 GMT) on Wednesday after more than six hours of debate.
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Thank God!!
BUH-BYE MEL!!!!!
Honduras. Obama will cut off any aid, and attempt to co-op Marxist regimes to destabilize Honduras.
Obama is as close to satan as any man can get.
He's Satan's handmaiden...if ya get my drift.
Nice color scheme. I hate the red state=Republican crap. We are the blue-they are the red!
They’re still calling it a coup! If it was a coup they would have shot the SOB!
I’m guessing the leftist media probably didn’t stick around to get the full results, but ran to report as soon as more than 50% were against; thus they could slant it as a ‘slim majority’ even though the vote was still going on.
I still don’t trust Obama to do the right thing. His instincts will be to side with raving Latin American leftists in other countries rather than with the people of Honduras deciding their own fate.
Thank you for your information. That makes the comments more plausible.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398967/posts
Yep, on this new thread the vote’s up past 90 against Z.
You’re right, he can’t be trusted when the first thing he did was cozy up to Chavez and he’ll surely do it with others.
99 votes, now.
BUMP!
Early on, some channels used a scheme of red for Democrats and blue for Republicans. The first television news network to use colors to depict the states won by presidential candidates was NBC.
In 1976, John Chancellor, the anchorman for the NBC Nightly News, asked his network's engineers to construct a large electronic map of the USA. The map was placed in the network's election-night news studio. If Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate that year, won a state it would light up in red; if Gerald Ford, the Republican, carried a state it would light up in blue. The feature proved to be so popular that four years later all three major television networks would use colors to designate the states won by the presidential candidates on Election Night. NBC continued to use the color scheme employed in 1976 for several years; NBC newsman David Brinkley famously referred to the 1980 election map as showing Ronald Reagan's 44-state landslide as resembling a "suburban swimming pool".[6]
CBS, from 1984 on, used the opposite scheme: blue for Democrats, red for Republicans. ABC used yellow for one major party and blue for the other in 1976. However, in 1980 and 1984, ABC used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats. As late as 1996, there was still no universal association of one color with one party.[7] If anything, by 1996, color schemes were relatively mixed, as CNN, CBS, ABC, and The New York Times referred to Democratic states with the color blue and Republican ones as red, while Time Magazine and the Washington Post used an opposite scheme.[8][9][10]
In the days following the protracted 2000 election, major media outlets began conforming to the same color scheme because the electoral map was continually in view and conformity made for easy and instant viewer comprehension. On Election Night that year there was no coordinated effort to code Democratic states blue and Republican states red; the association gradually emerged. Partly as a result of this eventual and near-universal color-coding, the terms "red states" and "blue states" entered popular usage in the weeks following the 2000 presidential election. Journalists began to routinely refer to "blue states" and "red states," even before the 2000 election was settled.[citation needed]
After the results were final, journalists stuck with the color scheme, as the December 2001 The Atlantic's cover story by David Brooks entitled, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible" illustrated. Thus, red and blue became fixed in the media and in many people's minds,[11] despite the fact that no "official" color choices had been made by the parties.
Of course, if you go over to the idiots at the RNC website, you will see a bright red theme.
You will know we are on the way back when that is gone.
Thanks for the ping. Great news
I was in Honduras over the Easter holidays. I really enjoyed going to the Mayan ruins in Copan. There are lots of towns between the capital and Copan that are fun to explore. The only problems I encountered are 1) never drink the water, only use bottle water, and 2) don’t ever eat any uncooked food. There are lots of bacteria and amoebas that we don’t encounter in the US that can cause some nasty intestinal problems. We also took Cipro antibiotic as a preventative all the time we were there and it “mostly” worked.
Now is the time to deal with Zelaya. Drag him out of the Brazilian Embassy and exact some frontier justice.
Ping
Citation needed, indeed. IIRC, it was USA Today's infamous county-by-county map that flipped the colors.
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