Barring a major development, or major mistake, in the race, 2008 will have more purple states in play than 2004, and that is fundamentally a good thing for a democracy.

WASHINGTON — Some of the country’s most traditionally conservative states are at a greater risk of turning purple than the GOP might realize, based on a new report.

Swing states are often key components in winning a presidential election. While most of the nation is firmly in one camp or another, for example, California has been a blue state (Democratic ...

New York may become a Purple Heart State if a bill that passed in both the state senate and Assembly gets signed into law.

(NEXSTAR) — Some of America’s red and swing states (purple) may have gotten less Republican during the pandemic. That’s according to 2020-21 U.S. Census data cited by real estate outlet ...

In recent history, the GOP brought its convention to both purple states and more solidly Republican ones. In 2020, the RNC was planned for North Carolina, a state that former President Donald ...

That’s because, as Wadhams and other experts say, those failures are an indicator of the Centennial State’s enduring purple nature. Tuesday’s sweeping wins for Democrats notwithstanding (not to ...

Western Carolina professor Chris Cooper's new book goes a long way in explaining how NC got to be one of the 2024 presidential race deciders.