T he United States map is traditionally split into “Red” and “Blue” states, where red states lean Republican and blue states ...

The map will be updated as soon as the election ... every state includes voters across the political spectrum; the red or blue shading often simply reflects the results of the winner-take-all ...

right? Simply put, no. The designation of colors for specific parties, in this case, red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, is something that is so ingrained in the political arena it is hard ...

Take a look at a San Diego County voter registration map and you'll see a county ... has transformed San Diego from a reliably red county to the light blue county it is today.

That marked a turning point in how America's major political parties are symbolized ... and you see a map with red and blue, it simplifies things. You don't really need to know a whole lot ...

and political reality are worlds apart." The interactive maps of how counties voted in the 2012, 2016 and 2020 elections show bright red and blue patches widening across the country. Many of the ...

Over the next several months I’ll visit several of those western states to explore the forces that remade the political map. Through ... s change from red to blue. After 10 years in Congress ...

As Chuck Todd, then political director and chief White House correspondent for NBC News, said in 2012, “For years, both parties would do red and blue maps, but they always made the other guys red.